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  1. 2025-02-14
    A year of Covid.Trevor Stammers - 2021 - The New Bioethics 27 (2):103-104.
    In last June's themed issue on environmental bioethics, presciently planned in early 2019, we published in addition our very first paper on Covid-19 – a critique of the British Medical Association'...
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  2. 2025-02-14
    Procreative Liability and Equality before the Law.Anca Gheaus - forthcoming - Journal of Applied Philosophy.
    Pallikkathayil argues that restrictions on abortion are inconsistent with the usual demands that states place on their citizens. States don't require their citizens to make their bodies available for the protection of other people's interests. Yet, when abortion is restricted, women who can be pregnant are less entitled than other citizens to decide on how their bodies are to be used; then, states fail to treat women as equal before the law. The argument is supposed to hold even if one (...)
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  3. 2025-02-14
    Error Theories of Absence Causation Are Not (Yet) Adequately Motivated.Phillip John Meadows - 2024 - Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts 5 (2):347-366.
    In this paper I consider the merits and motivations for eliminativist error theories of absence causation, such as those offered by Beebee, Varzi, and Mumford. According to such views, there is no causation by absence. Here I argue that, despite of- fering an alternative picture of the practice of citing absences as causes, these views are inadequately motivated. I consider and reject a range of arguments for error-theoretic approaches, including appeals to ontological economy, physicalism and the causal clo- sure of (...)
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  4. 2025-02-13
    The Spacing of Decolonial Aesthetics.Don Thomas Deere - 2020 - Journal of World Philosophies 5 (1):89-98.
    This essay develops on the aesthetic dimensions of decolonial thought in the work of Rodolfo Kusch and Enrique Dussel, who both point us to non-objectifying modes of thinking and being. Beyond a strictly epistemological approach, decolonial critique ought to offer an account of bodies, spaces, and movements that are the very condition of thought—that is to say, the condition of a mode of thinking otherwise, beyond the dominant colonial paradigm. This account of aesthetics involves the spacing and temporalizing of bodies (...)
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  5. 2025-02-13
    Seeing in Mirrors, Without Seeing-in.Luca Marchetti - forthcoming - Philosophia.
    Alberto Voltolini (2021) has recently claimed that mirrors are bona fide pictures, for they are grasped via what he identifies as the defining characteristic of a picture: a certain seeing-in experience. Voltolini refines the somewhat elusive concept of seeing-in, originally described by Wollheim, and then demonstrates its applicability to mirror experience. However, in this paper, I contend that Voltolini's improved version of seeing-in does not aptly describe the experience of viewing mirrors. In fact, according to the first aspect of Voltolini’s (...)
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  6. 2025-02-13
    Presentation and the Ways of Knowing.Kurt Sylvan - forthcoming - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.
    Ordinary thought recognizes many ways of knowing. Not all are epistemologically fundamental. Nevertheless, it is standard to think there is more than one fundamental way—call this view access pluralism. Access monism opposes access pluralism. This paper defends a version of access monism I call presentationalist monism (§1), on which the sole fundamental way of knowing is presentation. I defend presentationalist monism in three stages. Firstly (§2), I suggest that it is compelling about four central ways of knowing—viz., perceiving, episodically remembering, (...)
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  7. 2025-02-13
    Moral Dilemmas and Slow Codes.Parker Crutchfield - forthcoming - Bioethics.
    Slow codes—insincere attempts at resuscitation—are widely regarded in medicine and medical ethics as morally impermissible. My goal here is to enrich this special issue on the slow code with an argument for the permissibility of slow codes that is rooted in moral psychology. Specifically, if we take seriously the results from moral psychology, the slow code is not only permissible, it is often the best option. The context of the decision about whether to perform a slow code is analogous to (...)
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  8. 2025-02-13
    Three Roads from Sensory Awareness to Dualism.Brian Cutter - forthcoming - Philosophia.
    In this commentary on Neil Mehta's excellent book, A Pluralist Theory of Perception, I argue that Mehta's commitments lead to dualism. To this end, I give three arguments against physicalism that centrally rely on claims Mehta accepts. Since the relevant claims are highly plausible, the three arguments give everyone, not just Mehta, reason to reject physicalism.
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  9. 2025-02-13
    Strengthening Partnerships entre las Familias, las Escuelas, y la Universidad for Dual Language Bilingual, Bicultural, Biliterate Education (DLB3E).J. Joy Esquierdo & Alexander V. Stehn - 2025 - Journal of Latinos and Education 24.
    This paper explores how an institution of higher education in partnership with a local parent-led organization can support authentic and organic Latinx family engagement and advocacy for dual language bilingual, bicultural, biliterate education (DLB3E). We reflect upon how engaging with Spanish-speaking parents helped us reimagine, reinvigorate, and transform local schools and universities by means of new understandings and practices of linguistic and cultural wealth, community assets, and family empowerment. We argue that this form of collaboration can lead to innovative and (...)
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  10. 2025-02-13
    Functionalism, integrity, and digital consciousness.Derek Shiller - 2024 - Synthese 203 (2):1-20.
    The prospect of consciousness in artificial systems is closely tied to the viability of functionalism about consciousness. Even if consciousness arises from the abstract functional relationships between the parts of a system, it does not follow that any digital system that implements the right functional organization would be conscious. Functionalism requires constraints on what it takes to properly implement an organization. Existing proposals for constraints on implementation relate to the integrity of the parts and states of the realizers of roles (...)
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  11. 2025-02-13
    What do we talk about when we talk about metaphysical modality? A case study in conceptual systematicity.Barbara Vetter - forthcoming - In Aaron Segal & Nick Stang (eds.), Systematic Metaphysics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford University Press.
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  12. 2025-02-13
    Freedom and the Shaping of National Culture in Hispanic American Representations of the Renaissance Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, José Ingenieros and Alejandro Korn.Silvia Manzo - 2025 - In Mario Meliadò & Cecilia Muratori (eds.), Dissident renaissance: rewriting the history of early modern philosophy as political practice. Boston, Massachusetts: Brill. pp. 135-166.
    This chapter explores the representations of the Renaissance developed by two prominent intellectuals in Argentine philosophy during the first three decades of the twentieth century: José Ingenieros and Alejandro Korn. Their work is contrasted with that of a nineteenth- century Spanish source that served as the basis for their own performances, Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo. It will highlight how these authors articulated the ideas and ideals of the Renaissance with the construction of a national thought and culture. For the Argentines it (...)
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  13. 2025-02-13
    Agency in reproduction.Laura Nuño de la Rosa - 2023 - Evolution & Development 6 (340):418-429.
    While niche construction theory and developmental approaches to evolution have brought to the front the active role of organisms as ecological and developmental agents, respectively, the role of agents in reproduction has been widely neglected by organismal perspectives of evolution. This paper addresses this problem by proposing an agential view of reproduction and shows that such a perspective has implications for the explanation of the origin of modes of reproduction, the evolvability of reproductive modes, and the coevolution between reproduction and (...)
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  14. 2025-02-13
    Construct Validity in Automated Counterterrorism Analysis.Adrian K. Yee - 2025 - Philosophy of Science 92 (1):1-18.
    Governments and social scientists are increasingly developing machine learning methods to automate the process of identifying terrorists in real time and predict future attacks. However, current operationalizations of “terrorist”’ in artificial intelligence are difficult to justify given three issues that remain neglected: insufficient construct legitimacy, insufficient criterion validity, and insufficient construct validity. I conclude that machine learning methods should be at most used for the identification of singular individuals deemed terrorists and not for identifying possible terrorists from some more general (...)
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  15. 2025-02-13
    The Relational Aspect of Agent-Regret.Larisa Svirsky - 2025 - American Journal of Bioethics 25 (2):44-46.
    The idea that agent-regret is an important phenomenon in healthcare seems clear. Enck and Condley (2025) do an excellent job giving examples where clinician agent-regret seems understandable. Nonetheless, they focus almost exclusively on the importance of preserving clinician agency in these cases which, while likewise important, fails to fully capture their significance. Cases such as Dr. C’s and Nurse M’s are ones where there are clearly victims even if there are no wrongdoers; this is likely part of why Dr. C (...)
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  16. 2025-02-13
    Capturing Cognitive Flexibility: Responses to Cavallarin and Van Eyghen, Oviedo, and Szocik.Neil Van Leeuwen - forthcoming - Zygon.
    This is a response piece to the commentaries by Alberto Cavallarin and Hans Van Eyghen, Lluis Oviedo, and Konrad Szocik on my book _Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity_.
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  17. 2025-02-12
    "Responsibility" Plus "Gap" Equals "Problem".Marc Champagne - 2025 - In Johanna Seibt, Peter Fazekas & Oliver Santiago Quick (eds.), Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods. Amsterdam: IOS Press. pp. 244–252.
    Peter Königs recently argued that, while autonomous robots generate responsibility gaps, such gaps need not be considered problematic. I argue that Königs’ compromise dissolves under analysis since, on a proper understanding of what “responsibility” is and what “gap” (metaphorically) means, their joint endorsement must repel an attitude of indifference. So, just as “calamities that happen but don’t bother anyone” makes no sense, the idea of “responsibility gaps that exist but leave citizens and ethicists unmoved” makes no sense.
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  18. 2025-02-12
    Off-Switching Not Guaranteed.Sven Neth - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies.
    Hadfield-Menell et al. (2017) propose the Off-Switch Game, a model of Human-AI cooperation in which AI agents always defer to humans because they are uncertain about our preferences. I explain two reasons why AI agents might not defer. First, AI agents might not value learning. Second, even if AI agents value learning, they might not be certain to learn our actual preferences.
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  19. 2025-02-12
    The Obligation and Value of Justice in Hume.Ian Cruise - forthcoming - Hume Studies.
    This paper develops an interpretation of Hume’s accounts of the obligation and value of justice. According to my interpretation, Hume takes the obligation of justice to depend (in part) on the conventions that define the rules of justice realizing a distinctive form of value, which I call functional value. Properly understanding Hume’s accounts, I argue, requires revisionary understandings of his accounts of both the set of things susceptible to fundamental moral evaluation and his view of the nature of utility.
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  20. 2025-02-12
    Black Nausea: Existential Awareness of Antiblack Racism and a Phenomenology of Caution.Corey Reed - 2025 - Critical Philosophy of Race 13 (1):139-156.
    When Black agents engage spaces and phenomena that suggest a racialized, potential danger, Black agents shift in their existential understanding of themselves and their phenomenological engagement with the world. This article describes that existential and phenomenological change, and examines the issue of hypothetical anti-Black racism. Utilizing Sartrean and Fanonian conceptions of existential phenomenology, this article explicates three terms: Black nausea, Black vertigo, and a phenomenology of caution. These terms are used to describe the tension that Black agents experience when they (...)
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  21. 2025-02-12
    Two Distinctions about World-Relative Truth.Christopher James Masterman - forthcoming - Analysis.
    The distinction between truth in, and truth at, a possible world plays a significant role in many debates in modal metaphysics. In this note, I argue that there are two radically different ways of making the distinction precise. I argue that the differences matter, showing how they differently constrain the modal metaphysics of properties and propositions.
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  22. 2025-02-12
    Should we stop talking about “democracy”? Conceptual abandonment and the perils of political discourse.Steffen Koch - 2025 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 4 (28):1-16.
    In his recent book, The Concept of Democracy: An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment (OUP, 2023) Herman Cappelen argues that we should abandon the concept of democracy, and hence stop using the words “democracy” and “democratic.” In the course of developing his arguments for this surprising claim, Cappelen also offers a more general theory of what kind of reasons count in favor of abandoning a concept. In this paper, which is part of a book symposium on Cappelen’s book, I (...)
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  23. 2025-02-12
    Profiles of Animal Empathy: A Multidimensional Account.Albert Newen - manuscript
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  24. 2025-02-12
    Wanting to know whether.Ittay Nissan-Rozen - forthcoming - Analysis.
    It is argued that that the desire attributed to an agent, X, in sentences of the form ‘X wants to know whether P’, is not X’s overall desire for ‘X knows that P or X knows that “not P”’, but rather X’s expected conditional desire for knowing the truth about P, given the truth. An implication of this account for distributive justice is discussed.
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  25. 2025-02-12
    Friendships Need to Go Wrong in Order to Go Right.Laura Specker Sullivan & Fay Niker - forthcoming - Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
    Companion friendship is a paradigm example of a trusting relationship and is a central good in human life. These friendships are also complex; navigating this complexity carries risk. Philosophical work has largely overlooked questions about how friends might navigate this morally risky space in ways that protect and develop their relationship over time. More specifically, although it is generally accepted that friendship involves acting to promote the well-being of one’s friend, ethical analysis of such interpersonal action has not addressed questions (...)
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  26. 2025-02-12
    Meaningful work, nonperfectionism, and reciprocity.Caleb Althorpe - 2022 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
    Any liberal argument for incorporating meaningful work within a theory of justice inherits a burden of proof to show why it does not fall to the objection that privileging the work process valorizes particular ideas about the good and thereby unfairly privileges some persons over others. Existing liberal defences of meaningful work, which rely on the formative effects of work in contemporary economies, have a limited scope of appeal and do not provide a convincing reply to the objection. The paper (...)
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  27. 2025-02-12
    (3 other versions)Standard humanism & worldwide standard human society: the bright & brilliant world of 3rd millennium.Dāryūsh Qāsimiyān Dastjirdī - 2020 - [United States]: Lulu Press.
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  28. 2025-02-12
    Suspension as a mood.Benoit Guilielmo & Artūrs Logins - forthcoming - Philosophical Psychology.
    Suspension of judgment is a ubiquitous phenomenon in our lives. It is also relevant for several debates in contemporary epistemology (e.g., evidentialism/pragmatism; peer-disagreement/higher-order evidence; inquiry). The goal of this paper is to arrive at a better understanding of what suspension of judgment is. We first question the popular assumption that we call the Triad view according to which there are three and only three (paradigmatic) doxastic attitudes, namely, belief, disbelief, and suspension of judgment. We elaborate a cumulative argument regarding crucial (...)
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  29. 2025-02-12
    The Priority Map.Denis Buehler - forthcoming - Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
    How can we argue, from neural facts, that representational states exhibit some specific representational structure? This paper approaches the question through a case study on the priority map-mechanism that underlies our capacity to orient visual attention. Computational models from cognitive neuroscience describe this mechanism as operating over neural topographic structures. These neural structures exhibit the functional profile of topographic representational structure. I argue that this fact warrants attributing topographic structure to the priority map mechanism’s representational states.
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  30. 2025-02-12
    Minima Trivialia Bypassed.Pietro Salis - 2025 - Philosophia:1-12.
    Peirce’s pragmatist theory of truth holds that truth will be the outcome of an indefinitely adequate amount of scientific research. According to the minima trivialia objection, Peirce’s theory of truth is refuted by such common sense truths as that about what I ate for breakfast, which is hardly the outcome of a prolonged collective scientific endeavour. The argument does not work, however, if we endorse Sellars’s distinction between the manifest image and the scientific image of mankind in the world and (...)
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  31. 2025-02-12
    Definition and demonstration in the category of quantity and the ancient search for the definition of ratio.James Franklin - 2024 - In Peter R. Anstey & David Bronstein (eds.), Definition and essence from Aristotle to Kant. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 47-70.
    The most successful science on the Aristotelian model was geometry in the style of Euclid. As advocated in the Posterior Analytics, Euclid’s Elements laid out geometry as a structure of theorems deduced from definitions and axioms that were evident to reason. However, geometry deals with the category of quantity, whereas Aristotelian definitions are paradigmatically in the category of substance. This chapter argues that definitions in the category of quantity have fulfilled well the Aristotelian ideal of stating the essence of ‘what (...)
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  32. 2025-02-12
    What is a Visual Stream?J. Brendan Ritchie, Sebastian Montesinos & Maleah J. Carter - 2024 - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 36 (12):2627-2638.
    The dual stream model of the human and non-human primate visual systems remains Leslie Ungerleider's (1946-2020) most indelible contribution to visual neuroscience. In this model, a dorsal "where" stream specialized for visuospatial representation extends through occipitoparietal cortex, whereas a ventral "what" stream specialized for representing object qualities extends through occipitotemporal cortex. Over time, this model underwent a number of revisions and expansions. In one of her last scientific contributions, Leslie proposed a third visual stream specialized for representing dynamic signals related (...)
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  33. 2025-02-12
    Green Central Banking.Peter Dietsch, François Claveau, Clément Fontan & Jérémie Dion - 2024 - The Philosophy of Money and Finance 1:283-302.
    This chapter argues that central banks find themselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to green central banking. Either they endorse the project, exposing them to the charge that they lack the input legitimacy to do so, or they eschew taking into account climate concerns, thus undermining their output legitimacy. Our discourse analysis of central bankers’ speeches shows that disagreements among officials from the same institution regarding green central banking are grounded on issues outside their core (...)
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  34. 2025-02-12
    Permissivism and Mismatched Granularity.A. Muralidharan - forthcoming - Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
    Permissivism is the claim that more than one doxastic attitude towards a proposition can at least sometimes be justified by the same total body of evidence. Impermissivism, the negation of Permissivism, is commonly taken to involve evidentialist assumptions. The only versions of Permissivism consistent with evidentialist assumptions are those which combine coarse-grained accounts of doxastic attitudes with fine-grained accounts of evidential support, as with Blake Roeber’s equipollent cases or vice-versa with fine-grained accounts of doxastic attitudes combined with coarse-grained accounts of (...)
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  35. 2025-02-12
    How Informality Can Address Emerging Issues: Making the Most of the G7.Jean-Frédéric Morin, Hugo Dobson, Claire Peacock, Miriam Prys-Hansen, Abdoulaye Anne, Louis Belanger, Peter Dietsch, Judit Fabian, John Kirton, Raffaele Marchetti, Simone Romano, Miranda Schreurs, Arthur Silve & Elisabeth Vallet - 2019 - Global Policy 10 (2):267-273.
    The G7 should address new, unprecedented and highly disruptive issues that characterize our complex world, rather than well-understood international problems that fit into existing categories. We argue that the G7 can do this by playing to its strengths – informality and like-mindedness in particular – in addressing emerging and transversal issues such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrencies.
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  36. 2025-02-11
    THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUPERDETERMINISM: BOMBS AWAY ON CAUSALITY!John Bannan - manuscript
    The philosophy of superdeterminism is based on a single scientific fact about the universe, namely that cause and effect in physics are not real. In 2020, accomplished Swedish theoretical physicist, Dr. Johan Hansson published a physics proof using Albert Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity that our universe is superdeterministic meaning a predetermined static block universe without cause and effect in physics. The scientifically verified bomb tester experiment also confirms the absence of cause and effect in physics. In this experiment, a (...)
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  37. 2025-02-11
    What Personality Has to Do with Trusting People Based on How They Make Decisions.Attila Tanyi, Fatih Cetin, Frithiof Svenson & Marcus Launer - manuscript
    People think that making quick decisions is important for leadership in the digital age. Business ethics experts, on the other hand, say that smart managers take their time, stay calm, and think things through before making choices. There is a long history of moral study in business ethics that both approaches can draw on. This piece uses real numbers to show how much leaders in the information age trust the skills and drive of the people they work with. Dual process (...)
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  38. 2025-02-11
    Mars Historical and Ethical Context: Past, Present, and Imagination.Mikko Puumala, Oskari Sivula, Jacques Arnould, Klara-Anna Capova, Ondřej Ditrych, David Dunér, Natuschka Lee, Tony Milligan, Erik Persson, Nikola Schmidt & Morten Tønnessen - 2024 - In Verseux, Muriel Gargaud, Kirsi Lehto & Michel Viso (eds.), Mars and the Earthlings. Springer. pp. 85-98.
    The ethical, societal, and political issues of Mars settlement seem like very distant problems, both spatially and temporally. However, there is a certain urgency to these matters. Whatever humanity does in the coming decades will affect generations upon generations of future humans and other living beings, as well as their environments. The initial agreements about how resources are governed and what kind of regime is established can persist for a long time. There can be a “Founder Effect” in space. This (...)
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  39. 2025-02-11
    Proceedings of the Brazilian Research Group on Epistemology.A. Neiva & Luis Rosa - 2016 - Porto Alegre: Editora Fi.
    The Proceedings of the Brazilian Research Group on Epistemology is an annual publication of research in contemporary analytic epistemology (both traditional, social and formal approaches), organized and edited by members of the Brazilian academia. It aims mainly at publishing the work of Latin-American epistemologists to the international community, in an attempt to create a new channel of debate with researchers from other parts of the globe.
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  40. 2025-02-11
    Feeling a Beat.Alex Kerr - 2024 - Journal of Philosophy 121 (10):537-567.
    When you hear music, you experience a repeating pulse that you naturally tap along to—you feel a beat. But you can feel a beat differently under sounds you hear as otherwise alike. Heard each way, things sound different. But, heard each way, nothing seems to change. So why do things sound different? I argue that, surprisingly, the usual theories of perception have no good answer. I then develop a view on which different ways of feeling a beat are different ways (...)
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  41. 2025-02-11
    (1 other version)Syllogistic and Terminist Logic of Georgius Benignus (Juraj Dragišić, c. 1445–1520).Mihaela Girardi-Karšulin & Srećko Kovač - manuscript
    Two printed works on logic by Georgius Benignus / Juraj Dragišić are preserved: Dialectica nova (Florentiae 1488 [1489]) and Artis dialecticaes praecepta (Romae 1520 [1519]). The presentations of Dragišić's logic by Carl Prantl and Stjepan Zimmermann are assessed. Dragišić’s 1488 logic contains a very early exposition of nearly all modes of the fourth figure. He listed four direct modes of the fourth figure, and he may also have had in mind the fifth mode (Fresison), along with an additional mode, probably (...)
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  42. 2025-02-11
    Epicurus and the Buddha on Desire.Andrew Alwood - 2025 - Comparative Philosophy 16 (1):1-24.
    The philosophies of Epicurus and the Buddha aim to free us from suffering by helping us to recognize how ignorance and delusion lead us to pursue harmful desires. Since the problem lies in our attitudes, the solution is to change our attitudes. Like doctors healing the sick, they offer therapeutic practical advice, to remove the groundless opinions and the unhealthy desires that cause suffering. Although various misconceptions may lead us to conceive of these two thinkers as quite different with respect (...)
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  43. 2025-02-11
    Risk of What? Defining Harm in the Context of AI Safety.Laura Fearnley, Elly Cairns, Tom Stoneham, Philippa Ryan, Jenn Chubb, Jo Iacovides, Cynthia Iglesias Urrutia, Phillip Morgan, John McDermid & Ibrahim Habli - manuscript
    For decades, the field of system safety has designed safe systems by reducing the risk of physical harm to humans, property and the environment to an acceptable level. Recently, this definition of safety has come under scrutiny by governments and researchers who argue that the narrow focus on reducing physical harm, whilst necessary, is not sufficient to secure the safety of AI systems. There is growing pressure to expand the scope of safety in the context of AI to address emerging (...)
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  44. 2025-02-11
    In Search of Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob: On the History, Philosophy, and Authorship of the Ḥatäta Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob and the Ḥatäta Wäldä Ḥəywät.Lea Cantor, Jonathan Egid & Fasil Merawi (eds.) - 2024 - Berlin: De Gruyter.
    The Ḥatäta Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob and the Ḥatäta Wäldä Ḥəywät are enigmatic and controversial works. Respectively an autobiography and a companion treatise by a disciple, they are composed in the Gǝʿǝz language and set in the highlands of Ethiopia during the seventeenth century. Expressed in prose of great power and beauty, they bear witness to pivotal events in Ethiopian history and develop a philosophical system of considerable depth. However, they have also been condemned by some as a forgery, an elaborate mystification (...)
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  45. 2025-02-11
    Does know-how need to be autonomous?Gloria Andrada - 2024 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
    In chapter 4 of Autonomous Knowledge: Radical Enhancement, Autonomy and the Future of Knowing (OUP, 2021), Carter takes on the question of whether there is an epistemic autonomy condition on know-how, e.g. one that might rule out cases of radical performance enhancement as genuine cases of know-how. In this paper, I examine Carter’s proposal and identify an asymmetry in the way his epistemic autonomy condition is applied to enhanced and non-enhanced instances of know-how. In particular, it seems that either an (...)
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  46. 2025-02-11
    Through the Prism of Modal Epistemology: Perspective on Modal Modeling.Ylwa Sjölin Wirling & Till Grüne-Yanoff - 2025 - In Tarja Knuuttila, Till Grüne-Yanoff, Rami Koskinen & Ylwa Wirling (eds.), Modeling the Possible. Perspectives from Philosophy of Science. London: Routledge. pp. 27-47.
    Several philosophers of science have drawn attention to a number of modeling practices where scientific models primarily contribute modal information. Examples now abound, and, recently, there have also been some preliminary attempts to address questions of under what conditions, and by virtue of what, models can perform this modal epistemic function. This paper sets out to constructively review those attempts through a prism of the more general literature on the epistemology of modality. One aim of this exercise is to expose (...)
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  47. 2025-02-11
    Indicting the Athenians in the Melian Dialogue.Jesse James - 2024 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 144:164–181.
    It is widely agreed that Thucydides’ Melian dialogue presents the Athenian invasion of Melos, and the Athenian justification, in a negative light. Attention tends to focus on the immorality of‘the rule of the stronger’ that the Athenians present in the dialogue. This essay argues that another feature of the dialogue triggering negative judgements of the Athenians is their criticism of the Melians’ resistance: it is voiced by the Athenians themselves and therefore provokes in readers a‘speaker- relative’ normative judgement of the (...)
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  48. 2025-02-11
    Human Experience And Robotic Experience: A Reciprocal Exchange Of Perspectives.S. Incao, Carlo Mazzola, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti & Massimo Marassi - 2022 - In G. Riva & A. Marchetti (eds.), Humane Robotics. A Multidisciplinary Approach Towards the Development of Humane-Centred Technologies. Vita e Pensiero. pp. 51-68.
    The basis of a humane approach to others is the authentic comprehension of another subject. As humans, we can achieve this understanding well, and the reason lies in how we experience the world around us and other subjects in it. The development of robots capable of socially interacting and helping humans is progressing, even though they are still far from reaching an autonomous comprehension of others’ intentions, emotions, and feelings. In this sense, the hu- mane approach may be addressed in (...)
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  49. 2025-02-11
    Proportionality and Purposiveness in Kant’s Highest Good.Amir Yaretzky - forthcoming - Journal of Transcendental Philosophy.
    The task of this paper is to offer an interpretation of Kant’s notion of proportionality between morality and happiness, which is fundamental to his conception of the highest good. Kant claims that the complete good of humans as both natural and rational beings is a proportionate relation between virtue and happiness. He takes this to mean that nature is purposively designed so it accords with morality, which is only possible in a divine world where God secures this responsiveness. The paper (...)
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  50. 2025-02-11
    Grounding Distributive Justice on an Ideal Family: What Familial Norms Entail for Inequalities.Thaddeus Metz - 2025 - In Ingrid Robeyns (ed.), Pluralising Political Philosophy: Economic and Ecological Inequalities from a Global Perspective. Oxford University Press. pp. 248-272.
    An idea salient in the African and East Asian philosophical traditions is that the right sort of socio-political interaction would be similar to the intuitive ways that family members ought to relate to each other. Applying this perspective to economic and ecological inequalities, I articulate some principles implicit in healthy familial relationships, show what they entail for certain aspects of distributive justice at the national level, and contend that the implications are plausible relative to competing theories such as utilitarianism, Rawlsianism, (...)
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  51. 2025-02-10
    Action-based Benevolence.Waldemar Brys - forthcoming - European Journal of Philosophy.
    This paper raises a new problem for the widely held view that, according to the Confucian philosopher Mencius, being a benevolent person necessarily entails being affectively disposed in morally relevant ways. I argue that ascribing such a view to Mencius generates an inconsistent triad with two of his central philosophical commitments on what it means to be a benevolent ruler. I then consider possible ways of resolving the triad and I argue that the most attractive option is to reject the (...)
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  52. 2025-02-10
    The Relation Between Memory and Imagination: A Debate about the Right Concepts.Cesar Schirmer Dos Santos, Christopher Jude McCarroll & Andre Sant'Anna - 2022 - In Andre Sant'Anna, Christopher McCarroll & Kourken Michaelian (eds.), Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory. Current Controversies in Philosophy. pp. 38-56.
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  53. 2025-02-10
    Causation.Brad Weslake - 2014 - In Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), A companion to philosophy in Australia & New Zealand. Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing. pp. 107-110.
    Philosophical work on causation in Australasia has been extraordinarily rich and diverse, and in a brief survey much important work must remain unmentioned. Here I provide a selective overview, designed to highlight particularly influential work and to indicate the diversity of the contributions made by Australasian philosophers.
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  54. 2025-02-10
    Conditional Oughts and Contrastive Reasons.Thomas Schmidt - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies.
    I suggest a unified account of conditional oughts and of contrastive reasons. The core of the account is an explanation of facts about conditional oughts in terms of facts about contrastive reasons, and a reduction of contrastive reasons to non-contrastive reasons. In rejecting contrastivism about reasons, the account is consistent with orthodoxy about reasons. Moreover, it extends a standard view of how oughts and reasons are related to one another, and it makes sense of important and explanatorily recalcitrant phenomena. To (...)
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  55. 2025-02-10
    Pascal's Wager as a Decision Under Ignorance.André Neiva - forthcoming - Erkenntnis.
    In this paper, I examine Pascal's Wager as a decision problem where the uncertainty is massive, that is, as a decision under ignorance. I first present several reasons to support this interpretation. Then, I argue that wagering for God is the optimal act in a broad range of cases, according to two well-known criteria for decision-making: the Minimax Regret rule and the Hurwicz criterion. Given a Pascalian standard matrix, I also show that a tie between wagering for God and wagering (...)
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  56. 2025-02-10
    Fairness, Benefits, and Voluntary Acceptance.Edward Song - 2023 - Journal of Moral Philosophy 20 (3-4):268-289.
    The principle of fairness suggests that it is wrong for free riders to enjoy cooperative benefits without also helping to produce them. Considerations of fairness are a familiar part of moral experience, yet there is a great deal of controversy as to the conditions of their application. The primary debate concerns whether cooperative benefits need to be voluntarily accepted. Many argue that acceptance is unnecessary because such theories are too permissive and acceptance appears to be absent in a variety of (...)
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  57. 2025-02-10
    On the Motivations for Seeking a Theory of Quantum Gravity.Karen Crowther - 2025 - Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2948 (012002).
    While there are some empirical problems that could suggest the need for a theory of quantum gravity, most of these are not standardly taken as motivations for seeking a new theory. Rather, the quest for a theory of quantum gravity has been primarily motivated, guided, and constrained by philosophical and theoretical concerns. A critical examination of these can help us better understand what the theory is supposed to achieve—and, further, what it should be expected to achieve. On the other hand, (...)
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  58. 2025-02-10
    Retrospective Gaze.Gavin Keeney - 2025 - Substack.
    A selection of documents, texts, and archival records, with links, summarizing a sustained critical engagement with the art world and academia, through essays, reviews, etc., and inclusive of garden design, architecture, film, photography, fashion, performance art, music, and opera … They begin in New York, New York, in the early 2000s, and then become embedded in various aspects of PhD studies concerning visual agency, postdoctoral research projects concerned with a study of intellectual property rights, and, then, a second PhD focused (...)
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  59. 2025-02-10
    Deep brain stimulation for psychiatric versus neurological disorders: A call for nuance.Amanda Evans - forthcoming - Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
    (To appear in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences’ Book Symposium for Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science (OUP 2023) by Joshua May). In Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science (2023), Joshua May arrives at a cautiously optimistic appraisal of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for brain-based disorders. May does not, however, distinguish between disorders that are properly considered neurological and those that are properly considered psychiatric (or psychopathological). After motivating this distinction, I argue that May’s discussion of (...)
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  60. 2025-02-10
    How to construct consensus models to (maybe) make sense of the mind-body problem.Martin Korth - manuscript
    A recent article by Kuhn1 showcases the plethora of proposed solutions for the mind-body problem as it is understood in current ’consciousness science’. Perusing this article, philosophers will likely find it surprising to see the inclusion of for instance Indian idealism and Bhuddist thought, but neither German, nor British or US idealists, which seems especially unbalanced when instead of them theories like Kastrup’s analytical idealism (Hegel for physicists?) or Hoffmann’s interface theory (Kant for psychologists?) are included. The listings of dualist, (...)
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  61. 2025-02-10
    Art-Historical Empiricism and Digital Visualization of Cultural Heritage.Jakub Stejskal - forthcoming - Synthese.
    Digital visualizations of cultural heritage (DVCs) are typically used to re-create or re-imagine artworks in their original state. Their apparent efficiency raises questions about their relation to the historical artefacts: What is the visualizations’ status vis à vis the originals? Can they replace them? And if so, in what capacity? This paper explores these questions from the point of view of the DVCs’ potential epistemic yield. It argues that the knowledge they are supposed to provide amounts to mediating past experiences (...)
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  62. 2025-02-10
    Loneliness and Ressentiment.Kaitlyn Creasy - forthcoming - Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
    Loneliness, while a common human experience, is something to which people often respond quite differently. Here, I examine how an individual’s social position, as well as his socialization into a particular cultural milieu, can shape his response to the fact of his loneliness (as well as the features of human existence that loneliness makes salient). Specifically, I argue that in cases where the individual experiencing loneliness has been socialized to disvalue the features of existence that loneliness makes salient (e.g., our (...)
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  63. 2025-02-10
    Principles of digital humanism: A critical post-humanist view.Erich Prem - 2024 - Journal of Responsible Technology 17 (C):100075.
    Digital humanism emerges from serious concerns about the way in which digitisation develops, its impact on society and on humans. While its motivation is clear and broadly accepted, it is still an emerging field that does not yet have a universally accepted definition. Also, it is not always clear how to differentiate digital humanism from other similar endeavours. In this article, we critically investigate the notion of digital humanism and present its main principles as shared by its key proponents. These (...)
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  64. 2025-02-09
    The Hidden Hand of Gravity.Colin Beckley - 2015 - Milton Keynes: Think Logially Books.
    This work is intended to illustrate how gravity is a major factor in shaping life as we know it. It will be argued here that gravity has an influence at all levels, from particles to planets. Moreover, that any change in gravitational acceleration will have a direct and inevitable impact upon the form of any organism. From a fresh perspective some of the mysteries of evolution will be examined in light of gravity and its ubiquity. The creatures of the Earth, (...)
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  65. 2025-02-09
    Paul Feyerabend: Life, work, man.Tibor R. Szanto - 2024 - In The Essential Paul Feyerabend - And Some Other "Anarchists". Budapest - Pomaz: pp. 155-177.
    The paper analyses the thoughts of Paul Feyerabend in the context of the events and influences he experienced in his life. Drawing/reflecting on the broader context sheds further light on his oeuvre and personality.
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  66. 2025-02-09
    Complicating Objectification in the Medical Encounter: Embodied Experiences in the ICU during COVID-19.Allan Køster, Anthony Vincent Fernandez & Lars Peter Kloster Andersen - 2025 - Journal of Medical Humanities 46 (1):75-90.
    Illness and injury are often accompanied by experiences of bodily objectification. Medical treatments intended to restore the structure or function of the body may amplify these experiences of objectification by recasting the patient’s body as a biomedical object—something to be examined, measured, and manipulated. In this article, we contribute to the phenomenology of embodiment in illness and medicine by reexamining the results of a qualitative study of the experiences of nurses and patients isolated in an intensive care unit during the (...)
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  67. 2025-02-09
    How theoretical terms effectively refer.Sébastien Rivat - forthcoming - Synthese.
    Scientific realists with traditional semantic inclinations are often pressed to explain away the distinguished series of referential failures that seem to plague our best past science. As recent debates make it particularly vivid, a central challenge is to find a reliable and principled way to assess referential success at the time a theory is still a live concern. In this paper, I argue that this is best done in the case of physics by examining whether the putative referent of a (...)
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  68. 2025-02-09
    Cline, Erin M., Families of Virtue: Confucian and Western Views on Childhood Development: New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, 368 pages.Anna M. Hennessey - 2016 - Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 15 (3):467-472.
    A growing body of research in fields across the sciences has shown the profound impact that early parent-child relationships have on the physical, social, emotional and psychological developments of children. On a primary level, the architecture of a child’s brain is significantly affected by social experiences with parents and caregivers during the first three years of life. In Families of Virtue, Erin Cline addresses the importance of these findings and relates them to Chinese philosophy, exploring how early Confucian thinkers emphasized (...)
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  69. 2025-02-09
    Eliminativism Redux: Are Quotidian Pains Hurting Science?Nada Gligorov - forthcoming - Erkenntnis.
    Scientific inquiry has revealed that pain is a complex and heterogonous phenomenon that is neither localized to a circumscribed region in the brain nor realized by a unique neurological mechanism. This discovery has inspired the application of a new version of eliminativism–scientific eliminativism–to pain. Based on this view, pain is not a natural kind and should be eliminated from scientific theorizing. Scientific eliminativism applied to pain is purportedly distinct from eliminative materialism because the former does not require elimination of the (...)
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  70. 2025-02-09
    Self-Deception, Despair, and Healing in Boethius' Consolation.Ryan M. Brown - 2025 - In John F. Finamore, R. Loredana Cardullo & Chiara Militello (eds.), Platonism Through the Centuries. Chepstow: Prometheus Trust. pp. 219-248.
    In the Consolation of Philosophy, Lady Philosophy leads Boethius through a series of obstacles that prevent him from finding happiness within his prison cell: the role that luck and misfortune play in our affairs, the false paths to happiness in comparison with the true journey, the problem of evil and the disproportion between people’s lives and eschatological deserts, and, finally, whether God’s providential order necessitates our outcomes or if we can choose freely to pursue the happy life. As the pair (...)
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  71. 2025-02-08
    Causal modeling in multilevel settings: A new proposal.Thomas Blanchard & Andreas Hüttemann - 2024 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 109 (2):433-457.
    An important question for the causal modeling approach is how to integrate non‐causal dependence relations such as asymmetric supervenience into the approach. The most prominent proposal to that effect (due to Gebharter) is to treat those dependence relationships as formally analogous to causal relationships. We argue that this proposal neglects some crucial differences between causal and non‐causal dependencies, and that in the context of causal modeling non‐causal dependence relationships should be represented as mutual dependence relationships. We develop a new kind (...)
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  72. 2025-02-08
    Causal Bayes nets and token-causation: Closing the gap between token-level and type-level.Alexander Gebharter & Andreas Hüttemann - 2025 - Erkenntnis 90 (1):43-65.
    Causal Bayes nets (CBNs) provide one of the most powerful tools for modelling coarse-grained type-level causal structure. As in other fields (e.g., thermodynamics) the question arises how such coarse-grained characterisations are related to the characterisation of their underlying structure (in this case: token-level causal relations). Answering this question meets what is called a “coherence-requirement” in the reduction debate: How are different accounts of one and the same system (or kind of system) related to each other. We argue that CBNs as (...)
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  73. 2025-02-08
    Grasp and scientific understanding: a recognition account.Michael Strevens - 2024 - Philosophical Studies 181 (4):741-762.
    To understand why a phenomenon occurs, it is not enough to possess a correct explanation of the phenomenon: you must grasp the explanation. In this formulation, “grasp” is a placeholder, standing for the psychological or epistemic relation that connects a mind to the explanatory facts in such a way as to produce understanding. This paper proposes and defends an account of the “grasping” relation according to which grasp of a property (to take one example of the sort of entity that (...)
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  74. 2025-02-08
    Augustine on memory, the mind, and human flourishing.T. Parker Haratine - 2024 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 32 (6):1220-1240.
    Augustine maintains that the mind at least consists of memory, intellect, and will (De Trinitate 10.9.13 & 10.11.17). While it is easy to understand the intellect and will as essential to the mind’s activities, memory proves more difficult to understand. It is not immediately clear, for example, whether a human mind could operate without memory, whether people without memory have minds, and what distinguishes memory from the intellect. To understand the role of memory and its respective activities, this article addresses (...)
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  75. 2025-02-08
    Rethinking the Seven Colleges Conundrum.Kazi Huda - 2025 - The Daily Star.
    The recurrent clashes between Dhaka University (DU) students and those from its seven affiliated colleges highlight deeper issues beyond mere administrative inefficiencies, pointing to a significant crisis of identity and governance. Central to this crisis is the duality within the faculty—DU professors rooted in academic autonomy versus BCS cadre teachers entrenched in civil service hierarchy, exacerbating tensions and undermining collaboration. For the students, the affiliation with DU has deepened feelings of alienation, as they are caught in a liminal status, neither (...)
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  76. 2025-02-08
    AI-Enhanced Urban Mobility: Optimizing Public Transportation Systems in Smart Cities.Eric Garcia - manuscript
    Urban transportation systems face significant challenges due to increasing congestion, inefficient routes, and fluctuating passenger demand. Traditional public transportation networks often struggle to adapt dynamically to these challenges, leading to delays, overcrowding, and environmental inefficiencies. This paper explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IoT technologies can optimize urban mobility by enabling real-time route optimization, demand forecasting, and passenger flow management. By integrating data from GPS trackers, fare collection systems, and environmental sensors, cities can reduce travel times, enhance commuter satisfaction, and (...)
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  77. 2025-02-08
    Is the golden section a key for understanding beauty? Part III.Luca Nicotra & Franco Eugeni - 2019 - Science and Philosophy 7 (2):83-112.
    Our goal is to prove that the golden section, however important, is not the only key to understand a mathematical-formalizing approach to the idea of beauty. Having developed, from this point of view, reading keys linked to the post-modern, it is necessary to link together the multiple rivulets of knowledge that gather in this direction. Moreover the canons of the approaches presented up to now are very indicative for the understanding of many aspects of beauty, which however depends on the (...)
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  78. 2025-02-08
    Hooray for Global Justice? Emerging Democracies in a Multipolar World.Julian Culp & Johannes Plagemann - 2014 - Global Justice : Theory Practice Rhetoric 7.
    Rising powers are fundamentally shifting the relations of power in the global economic and political landscape. International political theory, however, has so far failed to evaluate this nascent multipolarity. This article fills this lacuna by synthesizing empirical and normative modes of inquiry. It examines the transformation of sovereignty exercised by emerging democracies and focuses especially on the case of Brazil. The paper shows that – in stark contrast to emerging democracies’ foreign policy rhetoric – the ‘softening’ of sovereignty, which means (...)
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  79. 2025-02-08
    Global democratic educational justice.Julian Culp - 2022 - In Randall R. Curren (ed.), Handbook of philosophy of education. New York, NY: Routledge.
    Philosophical debates about educational justice concern the justification, the contents, and the realization of rights to education, and they take place at the intersection of political philosophy and philosophy of education. On the one hand, theorists of educational justice turn to conceptions of justice within political philosophy and use them as normative foundations when developing their conceptions of educational justice. On the other hand, they draw on conceptions of moral and political education within philosophy of education to show how persons (...)
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  80. 2025-02-08
    The Adoption Problem in the Philosophy of Logic.Viviane Fairbank & Ulf Hlobil - forthcoming - Philosophy Compass.
    In the philosophy of logic, the Adoption Problem is a challenge to the claim that reasoners can, in certain ways, rationally change which logic they use. The (alleged) problem is that if someone does not already infer in accordance with some fundamental logical principles (such as Universal Instantiation or Modus Ponens), then they cannot rationally begin to do so: the “adoption” of these principles is either unnecessary or impossible. In the literature, three issues have emerged as especially contentious: (1) How (...)
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  81. 2025-02-08
    What is AI Ethics?Felix Lambrecht & Marina Moreno - 2024 - American Philosophical Quarterly 61 (4):387-401.
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is booming, and AI ethics is booming with it. Yet there is surprisingly little attention paid to what the discipline of AI ethics is and what it ought to be. This paper offers an ameliorative definition of AI ethics to fill this gap. We introduce and defend an original distinction between novel and applied research questions. A research question should count as AI ethics if and only if (i) it is novel or (ii) it is applied and (...)
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  82. 2025-02-08
    Reparative justice, historical injustice, and the nonidentity problem.Felix Lambrecht - forthcoming - Journal of Social Philosophy.
    There is widespread intuition that historical injustices require reparations. This paper considers one philosophical problem for reparations: the Nonidentity Objection. The Objection states that present agents are not owed reparations for historical injustices because without the historical injustice they would not exist. I show the Objection only challenges the possibility of reparations for historical injustice if we adopt a particular model of reparative justice that takes someone experiencing harms to be a necessary condition for reparative justice. Instead, if we adopt (...)
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  83. 2025-02-07
    A simpler model of judgment: on Sosa’s Epistemic Explanations.Antonia Peacocke - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies.
    In _Epistemic Explanations_, Sosa continues to defend a model of judgment he has long endorsed. On this complex model of judgment, judgment aims not only at correctness but also at aptness of a kind of alethic affirmation. He offers three arguments for the claim that we need this model of judgment instead of a simpler model, on which judgment aims only at correctness. The first argument cites the need to exclude knowledge-spoiling luck from apt judgment. The second argument uses the (...)
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  84. 2025-02-07
    Can’t Kill the Vibe: Against Hope in Aesthetic Discourse.Nick Riggle - forthcoming - Mind.
    In a recent paper, Nat Hansen and Zed Adams argue for an aesthetic discourse governing principle they call Hope. Inspired by the work of Stanley Cavell, they argue that when we speak with each other about the aesthetic value of an object we hope that our attitudes about the object will converge. They characterize this shared hope as involving the exercise of rational capacities in the service of sharing feelings and attitudes, and as accommodating enough to sanction even acrimonious aesthetic (...)
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  85. 2025-02-07
    On the Semantics and the Ontology of the Mass-Count Distinction.Friederike Moltmann - forthcoming - Philosophy Compass.
    The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns in English and many other languages and is generally taken to have semantic content or reflect a semantic mass-count distinction. At the center of the semantic mass-count distinction is, in some way or another, a notion of unity or being a single entity, the basis of countability. There is little unanimity, however, of how that notion is to be understood and thus what the semantic mass-count distinction consists in. The paper gives (...)
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  86. 2025-02-07
    Inference, Taking, and Reason-Responsiveness.Anna-Sara Malmgren - forthcoming - In Luis Oliveira & Joshua DiPaolo (eds.), Kornblith and His Critics. Wiley-Blackwell.
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  87. 2025-02-07
    Quasi-Doxastic Propositional Faith.Benjamin W. McCraw - 2023 - Faith and Philosophy 40 (3):377-403.
    This paper defends a quasi-doxastic model of propositional faith whereby faith that p entails a disposition to believe that p. I argue for this model set against its main competitors: doxasticism and non-doxasticism. I survey several key arguments in the debate and argue that the quasi-doxastic approach can better affirm and explain a range of considerations provided by such arguments. Then I turn to a set of theoretical explananda that, again, I argue quasi-doxastic faith is uniquely placed to explain. I (...)
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  88. 2025-02-07
    Bernard Stiegler on Automatic Society. As told to Anaïs Nony.Anaïs Nony - 2015 - The Third Rail Quaterly 5:16-17.
    In his new book, La société automatique, Bernard Stiegler departs from a philosophical tradition that opposes autonomy and automatization so as to position automatization at the core of biological, social, and technical forms of life. Responding to the rise of the digital—as the increasing automatization of processes of selection through computational means—Stiegler’s project challenges us to recognize contemporary life as automatic. This shift in approach inevitably recalibrates the ontogenetic grounds of contemporary culture, and necessitates a reconsideration of sociocultural practices from (...)
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  89. 2025-02-07
    Alternative cosmologies.Martín López Corredoira - 2025 - Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2948:012001.
    A few remarkable examples of alternative cosmological theories are shown, ranging from a compilation of variations on the Standard Model (inhomogeneous universe, Cold Big Bang, varying physical constants or gravity law, zero-active mass, Milne cosmology, cyclical models), through the more distant quasi-steady-state cosmology, plasma cosmology, or universe models as a hypersphere such as the Dynamic Universe, to the most exotic cases including static models with non-cosmological redshifts of galaxies. -/- Most cosmologists do not usually work within the framework of alternative (...)
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  90. 2025-02-07
    Is Emptiness Non-Empty? Jizang’s Conception of Buddha-Nature.Jenny Hung - 2025 - Religions 16 (2):184.
    Jizang (549–623) is regarded as a prominent figure in Sanlun Buddhism (三論宗) and a revitalizer of Nāgārjuna’s Mādhyamaka tradition in China. In this essay, I argue that Jizang’s concept of non-empty Buddha-nature is compatible with the idea of universal emptiness. My argument unfolds in three steps. First, I argue that, for Jizang, Buddha-nature is the Middle Way (zhongdao 中道), which signifies a spiritual state that avoids the extremes of both emptiness and non-emptiness. Next, I explore how and why Jizang believes (...)
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  91. 2025-02-07
    Understanding Anscombe’s Absolutism.Marshall Bierson - 2024 - In Nathan Hauthaler & Nicholas Ogle (eds.), Anscombe and the Anscombe Archive. Philadelphia, PA: Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture. pp. 97-120.
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  92. 2025-02-07
    Reasons of state as reasons in law: Understanding deep legal change with Hegel's theory of adjudication.Simon Gansinger - 2023 - Dissertation, University of Warwick
    Deep legal change occurs when, without legal justification, one legal rule is replaced by another. While often ignored in legal theory, these rule-breaking normative transformations are common and significant enough to warrant careful attention. In this thesis, I analyse the structure of deep legal change and discuss how a philosophically rigorous jurisprudence should approach a legal phenomenon that appears to be legally inexplicable. In particular, I focus on the implications of rule-breaking rule-changes for our conception of courts and legal reasoning. (...)
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  93. 2025-02-07
    Compositional depths of cognitive semantics: bridging perceptual experiences and conceptual structures.K. Pala, Vasudevan Nedumpozhimana & S. Shalu - 2025 - Front. Psychol 16.
    The primary aim of this research was to investigate the intricate relationship between the structural elements of experiences and their essential role in meaning formation. The analysis focused on understanding the nature of mental representations and the subjective, phenomenal qualities that emerge within experiences. To achieve this, an integrated approach, combining cognitive semantics with phenomenological analysis, was employed to examine the compositional complexities of the dynamic interaction between a priori and immediate experiences and their significance in meaning formation. The study (...)
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  94. 2025-02-07
    Discussions on Human Enhancement Meet Science: A Quantitative Analysis.Tomasz Żuradzki, Piotr Bystranowski & Vilius Dranseika - 2025 - Science and Engineering Ethics 31 (1):1-23.
    The analysis of citation flow from a collection of scholarly articles might provide valuable insights into their thematic focus and the genealogy of their main concepts. In this study, we employ a topic model to delineate a subcorpus of 1,360 papers representative of bioethical discussions on enhancing human life. We subsequently conduct an analysis of almost 11,000 references cited in that subcorpus to examine quantitatively, from a bird’s-eye view, the degree of openness of this part of scholarship to the specialized (...)
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  95. 2025-02-07
    Iteration and Dependence Again.Luca Incurvati - 2023 - In Carolin Antos, Neil Barton & Giorgio Venturi (eds.), The Palgrave Companion to the Philosophy of Set Theory. Palgrave.
    In the first part of the paper, I clarify what is at stake in the debate between accounts of the iterative conception based on the notion of metaphysical dependence and the minimalist account I have defended in previous work (Incurvati 2012; 2020). I argue that the debate concerns how to understand and motivate the central tenet of the iterative conception that every set occurs at some level of the cumulative hierarchy. This debate, I contend, should be distinguished from the debate (...)
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  96. 2025-02-07
    Testimonial authority and knowledge transmission.Christoph Jäger & Nicholas Shackel - 2025 - Social Epistemology 2025.
    Is speaker knowledge necessary or sufficient for enabling hearers to know from testimony? Here, we offer a novel argument for the answer no, based on the systematic effects of partial belief and the hearer’s view prior to hearing testimony. Modelling partial belief by credence, we show that a requirement entailed by the principles of necessity and sufficiency apparent in the literature is inconsistent with Bayesian updating. Consequently, even when the other grounds of knowledge are in place, the audience correctly updating (...)
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  97. 2025-02-07
    Rouse’s Conception of Practice Theory and Existential Phenomenology.Jo-Jo Koo - 2017 - Phänomenologische Forschungen 2017 (2):92-110.
    Joseph Rouse is one of the most distinctive and innovative proponents of practice theory today. This article focuses in section I on two extended elaborations with systematic intent from Rouse’s corpus over the last two decades regarding the nature of practices, highlighting in particular the concept of normativity. Toward this end, this article explains why Rouse argues that we need to bring about something like a Copernican revolution in our understanding of the intrinsic normativity of practices as an essentially interactive, (...)
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  1. 2025-02-14
    Nghề môi giới và tư vấn đầu tư chứng khoán trong thời đại AI: Thách thức và cơ hội.Nguyễn Văn Quý & Nguyễn Phương Tri - 2025 - Kinh Tế Và Dự Báo.
    Nghề môi giới và tư vấn đầu tư chứng khoán đã trải qua nhiều giai đoạn thăng trầm, gắn liền với những biến động của nền kinh tế, sự thay đổi của các mô hình tài chính và tác động của các cuộc cách mạng công nghệ.
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  2. 2025-02-14
    Mark 14:58 and the "Handmade-Not Handmade" Parallel.Elton Hollon - 2023 - Bibliotheca Sacra 180 (719):325-352.
    Some scholars retain the neat “handmade–not handmade” adjectival parallel in their reconstructions of Jesus’s prophecy against the temple reported in Mark 14:58, suggesting the parallel refers to the eschatological temple common to Jewish apocalyptic literature. While the suggestion is plausible, the parallel is more likely the result of Markan redaction and symbolism. A reconstruction of the parallel’s tradition history in early Christianity shows that the addition follows a pattern of connecting Jesus’s prophecy with his resurrection and the growth of the (...)
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  3. 2025-02-14
    A year of Covid.Trevor Stammers - 2021 - The New Bioethics 27 (2):103-104.
    In last June's themed issue on environmental bioethics, presciently planned in early 2019, we published in addition our very first paper on Covid-19 – a critique of the British Medical Association'...
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  4. 2025-02-14
    Charity Donation _System (12th edition).Sayali Randhave Pratiksha Jawalge - 2024 - International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (12):14882-14885. Translated by Pratiksha Jawalge.
    The article investigates the potential for blockchain technology to be used for charity reasons. Problems in this field need the introduction of new storage mechanisms and the flow of information between donors, foundations, contribution receivers, and other charity players to assure data privacy, fund integrity, and donation control. Using the blockchain to ensure data security and the capacity to track the movement of funds and transactions would pique the interest of potential donors in nonprofit organisations. In this essay, the writers (...)
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  5. 2025-02-14
    Four Quadrant Operation of DC Motor_ using PID Controller (14th edition).Darshan A. C. Tarakeshwari V. - 2025 - International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology 14 (2):1217-1221.
    This project aims to control the speed and direction of a DC motor in four quadrants: clockwise, counterclockwise, forward braking, and reverse braking. An H-bridge motor drive IC is used to switch the motor’s polarity based on user inputs via four control switches. A slide switch enables alternative directional control. A 555 timer generates PWM pulses for speed regulation, while relays manage polarity changes and braking. In regenerative braking, the motor generates reverse Ftorque for instant stopping. The four-quadrant control is (...)
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  6. 2025-02-14
    User Activity Analysis Via Network Traffic Using DNN and Optimized Federated Learning based Privacy Preserving Method in Mobile Wireless Networks.DrV. R. Vimal and DrR. Sugumar DrR. Udayakumar, Dr Suvarna Yogesh Pansambal, Dr Yogesh Manohar Gajmal - 2023 - INDIA: ESS- ESS PUBLICATION.
    Mobile and wireless networking infrastructures are facing unprecedented loads due to increasing apps and services on mobiles. Hence, 5G systems have been developed to maximise mobile user experiences as they can accommodate large volumes of traffics with extractions of fine-grained data while offering flexible network resource controls. Potential solutions for managing networks and their security using network traffic are based on UAA (User Activity Analysis). DLTs (Deep Learning Techniques) have been recently used in network traffic analysis for better performances. These (...)
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  7. 2025-02-14
    Procreative Liability and Equality before the Law.Anca Gheaus - forthcoming - Journal of Applied Philosophy.
    Pallikkathayil argues that restrictions on abortion are inconsistent with the usual demands that states place on their citizens. States don't require their citizens to make their bodies available for the protection of other people's interests. Yet, when abortion is restricted, women who can be pregnant are less entitled than other citizens to decide on how their bodies are to be used; then, states fail to treat women as equal before the law. The argument is supposed to hold even if one (...)
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  8. 2025-02-14
    The Universal Formula as a Perfect Information Field: A Guiding Framework for Nature, Society, and AI.Angelito Malicse - manuscript
    -/- The Universal Formula as a Perfect Information Field: A Guiding Framework for Nature, Society, and AI -/- Introduction -/- Throughout history, human beings have sought to understand the fundamental laws governing nature, society, and consciousness. The discovery of these laws is a result of conscious intelligence, which refines knowledge over time. Some speculative theories, such as Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic resonance, suggest that nature has a kind of memory field that guides the behavior of organisms and systems. However, without empirical (...)
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  9. 2025-02-14
    User Activity Analysis Via Network Traffic Using DNN and Optimized _Federated Learning based Privacy Preserving Method in Mobile Wireless Networks (14th edition).DrR. Sugumar Drr Udayakumar - 2024 - Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications 14 (2):66-81.
    Mobile and wireless networking infrastructures are facing unprecedented loads due to increasing apps and services on mobiles. Hence, 5G systems have been developed to maximise mobile user experiences as they can accommodate large volumes of traffics with extractions of fine-grained data while offering flexible network resource controls. Potential solutions for managing networks and their security using network traffic are based on UAA (User Activity Analysis). DLTs (Deep Learning Techniques) have been recently used in network traffic analysis for better performances. These (...)
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  10. 2025-02-14
    Utilitarianism in Suicide: Insights from Freudian-Durkheimian Theories and the Response of Christian Ethics.Etaoghene Paul Polo - 2025 - Nnadiebube Journal of Social Sciences (Njss) 5 (1):39-50.
    This paper explores the concept of utilitarianism in relation to suicide, drawing insights from Freudian psychoanalytic theory and Durkheimian sociology, while presenting a Christian ethical response. Freud’s theory of the death drive (Thanatos) and Durkheim’s classifications of suicide suggest that individuals may seek relief or perceived pleasure in ending their lives, which could align with a utilitarian calculus of maximising pleasure and minimising pain. However, this paper argues that such a perspective fails to account for the broader pain caused to (...)
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  11. 2025-02-14
    Morphic Resonance as the Perfect Information of the Universe.Angelito Malicse - manuscript
    Morphic Resonance as the Perfect Information of the Universe -/- Introduction -/- For centuries, humanity has sought to understand the nature of reality, the source of knowledge, and the underlying principles that govern existence. Traditional science has viewed the universe as a purely physical system, while metaphysical and spiritual traditions have long suggested that reality is shaped by an unseen informational field. One emerging concept that bridges these perspectives is morphic resonance, a theory proposed by Rupert Sheldrake, which suggests that (...)
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  12. 2025-02-14
    "Denn das Wahre ist das Ganze nicht..." Beiträge zur Negativen Anthropologie Ulrich Sonnemanns.Tobias Heinze & Martin Mettin (eds.) - 2021 - Berlin: Neofelis.
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  13. 2025-02-14
    Morphic Resonance and the Spread of the Universal Formula for Free Will.Angelito Malicse - manuscript
    Morphic Resonance and the Spread of the Universal Formula for Free Will -/- Introduction -/- The challenge of implementing a universal formula for free will, based on the law of balance in nature, requires a mechanism that allows societies to naturally adopt and internalize its principles. One such mechanism may exist in morphic resonance, a concept proposed by Rupert Sheldrake. Morphic resonance suggests that patterns of thought, behavior, and structure become easier to replicate once they have been established in a (...)
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  14. 2025-02-14
    AGI and the Universal Law of Balance: A Path to Continuous Equilibrium.Angelito Malicse - manuscript
    AGI and the Universal Law of Balance: A Path to Continuous Equilibrium -/- By Angelito Malicse -/- Introduction -/- Human consciousness has long sought to understand and maintain balance in nature. Through the evolution of knowledge, particularly via language, consciousness refines its understanding of the universe. However, balance is not a fixed state but an ongoing process that requires constant adaptation. With the advancement of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), we now have the potential to accelerate and maintain this process indefinitely. (...)
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  15. 2025-02-14
    Dual constraints on agent decision-making: Expanding Rocchè's critique of Raz's exclusionary reasons.Cuizhu Wang - 2024 - Revus 54.
    This article expands Giuseppe Rocchè’s critique of Raz’s model of exclusionary reasons by addressing its limitations in real-world decision-making. By drawing from theories of bounded rationality and social norms, this commentary highlights how the interplay of cognitive biases and social constraints complicates the exclusionary reasoning process. Bounded rationality reveals cognitive limitations that prevent people from fully filtering biases, even when they intend to follow authority. Whereas research on social norms illustrates how normative pressures lead individuals to align their behaviour with (...)
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  16. 2025-02-14
    The Continuous Evolution of Consciousness, Language, and Meaning in Understanding the Universe.Angelito Malicse - manuscript
    The Continuous Evolution of Consciousness, Language, and Meaning in Understanding the Universe -/- Introduction -/- The evolution of human consciousness is intricately linked to language and meaning. As human understanding of the universe deepens, so does the complexity and precision of the words and concepts we use to describe reality. This continuous progression is not merely a passive adaptation but an active feedback loop where consciousness shapes language, and language, in turn, refines consciousness. If human decision-making follows the universal law (...)
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    The Possibility of a Type III Civilization: Non-Biological Intelligence Embedded in the Fabric of Space and Time.Angelito Malicse - manuscript
    The Possibility of a Type III Civilization: Non-Biological Intelligence Embedded in the Fabric of Space and Time -/- Introduction -/- The concept of a Type III civilization, as classified by the Kardashev Scale, represents an advanced stage of intelligence capable of harnessing and controlling the energy of an entire galaxy. While traditional perspectives assume such a civilization would emerge from biological beings evolving over vast periods, an alternative possibility arises—an intelligence not based on biological life but rather embedded in the (...)
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  18. 2025-02-14
    Moral Injury in Refugee Communities: The Connection Between Displacement and Disorientation.Garrett Potts & Lillian Abadal - 2023 - In Adib Farhadi, Mark Grzegorzewski & Anthony Masys (eds.), The Great Power Competition Volume 5: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Implications for the Central Region. Springer. pp. 239-253.
    This chapter demonstrates the role that displacement can play in generating moral injury (MI) within refugee communities. To better understand the consequences of displacement, it considers how individuals’ identities and values are formed through their local communities. While there are many reasons that displacement ought to be understood as a potentially morally injurious experience (PMIE), particular attention is given to the negative effects of disorientation, which are associated with displacement. The chapter uncovers multiple facets of disorientation, such as despair, confusion, (...)
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  19. 2025-02-14
    Challenging Aristotle's Privileged Virtue with Christ.Lillian Abadal - 2025 - In Eric Yang (ed.), Exemplars, Imitation, and Character Formation A Philosophical, Psychological, and Christian Inquiry. pp. 200-214.
    This chapter will directly engage what I call Aristotle’s “privileged virtue thesis,” which essentially holds that only a very small number of very privileged people have access to the kind of external goods and mentors that will allow them to flourish through the acquisition of the virtues. Another way of putting this is that virtue is so rare because good formation and mentorship are rare. Aristotle’s thesis is a difficult one to refute given what we know about social learning and (...)
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  20. 2025-02-14
    Chronic Moral Injury in the Medical Professions.Lillian Abadal & Garrett Potts - 2025 - In Dulce M. Redin, Garrett Potts & Omowumi Ogunyemi (eds.), MacIntyre and the Practice of Governing Institutions. Springer. pp. 107-122.
    This chapter explores the impact of “bureaucratic individualism” and profit-centered models on the medical profession, specifically examining Chronic Moral Injury (CH-MI). Drawing on Alasdair MacIntyre’s philosophy and Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen’s critique of the Provider of Services Model (PSM) in healthcare, we argue that the erosion of practical reason—a key element for pursuing excellence in the profession—has dire consequences. Within the PSM, the focus on consumerism and radical patient autonomy hampers medical professionals’ ability to make value-informed judgments, contributing to (...)
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  21. 2025-02-14
    Error Theories of Absence Causation Are Not (Yet) Adequately Motivated.Phillip John Meadows - 2024 - Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts 5 (2):347-366.
    In this paper I consider the merits and motivations for eliminativist error theories of absence causation, such as those offered by Beebee, Varzi, and Mumford. According to such views, there is no causation by absence. Here I argue that, despite of- fering an alternative picture of the practice of citing absences as causes, these views are inadequately motivated. I consider and reject a range of arguments for error-theoretic approaches, including appeals to ontological economy, physicalism and the causal clo- sure of (...)
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  22. 2025-02-13
    The Spacing of Decolonial Aesthetics.Don Thomas Deere - 2020 - Journal of World Philosophies 5 (1):89-98.
    This essay develops on the aesthetic dimensions of decolonial thought in the work of Rodolfo Kusch and Enrique Dussel, who both point us to non-objectifying modes of thinking and being. Beyond a strictly epistemological approach, decolonial critique ought to offer an account of bodies, spaces, and movements that are the very condition of thought—that is to say, the condition of a mode of thinking otherwise, beyond the dominant colonial paradigm. This account of aesthetics involves the spacing and temporalizing of bodies (...)
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  23. 2025-02-13
    The Upsurge of the Living : Critical Ethics and the Materiality of the Community of Life.Don T. Deere - 2021 - In Amy Allen & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Decolonizing ethics: the critical theory of Enrique Dussel. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press.
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  24. 2025-02-13
    Mεtascience: discours général scientifique - No. 1 - Mario Bunge. Penseur de la matérialité.François Maurice - 2020 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 1:1-322.
    [EXTRAIT DU PREMIER NUMÉRO DE Mεtascience. TOUS LES ARTICLES ONT ÉTÉ RETIRÉS À L'EXCEPTION DE LA PRÉSENTATION ET DE L'INTRODUCTION. TOUS LES NUMÉROS SONT DISPONIBLES AUX ÉDITIONS MATÉRIOLOGIQUES]. Ce numéro inaugural de la revue Mεtascience est aussi un numéro spécial puisqu’il rend hommage à Mario Bunge (1919-2020) pour souligner son apport à la connaissance et notre filiation avec sa pensée. Le projet de Mario Bunge s’inscrit dans la tradition humaniste et scientifique des Lumières. Au terme de son voyage intellectuel, il (...)
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  25. 2025-02-13
    Sócrates, uma vítima do fundamentalismo religioso? A condenação da Arte de Pensar Criticamente.Marcelo Barboza Duarte - 2025
    Sócrates, uma vítima do fundamentalismo religioso? A condenação da Arte de Pensar Criticamente / Socrates, a victim of religious fundamentalism? The Condemnation of the Art of Critical Thinking / Sócrates, ¿víctima del fundamentalismo religioso? La condena del arte del pensamiento crítico . / -/- Muito ainda se investiga, estuda, especula e se discute sobre os inúmeros motivos da condenação e morte de Sócrates. Os três ‘grandes crimes’ que o levaram a condenação e morte são apresentados e detalhados por inúmeros autores, (...)
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    Mεtascience: discours général scientifique - No. 2 - L'ontologie métascientifique.François Maurice - 2022 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 2:1-300.
    [EXTRAIT DU SECOND NUMÉRO DE Mεtascience. TOUS LES ARTICLES ONT ÉTÉ RETIRÉS À L'EXCEPTION DE LA PRÉSENTATION. TOUS LES NUMÉROS SONT DISPONIBLES AUX ÉDITIONS MATÉRIOLOGIQUES]. Ce deuxième numéro de la revue Mεtascience poursuit la caractérisation de cette nouvelle branche du savoir qu’est la métascience. Si elle est nouvelle ce n’est pas en un sens radical puisque Mario Bunge l’a pratiquée de façon exemplaire, puisque les positivistes logiques furent accusés de ne pratiquer qu’une simple métascience, puisque les scientifiques l’ont toujours pratiquée (...)
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    Mεtascience: discours général scientifique - No. 3 - L'épistémologie métascientifique.François Maurice - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:1-332.
    [EXTRAIT DU TROISIÈME NUMÉRO DE Mεtascience. TOUS LES ARTICLES ONT ÉTÉ RETIRÉS À L'EXCEPTION DE LA PRÉSENTATION. TOUS LES NUMÉROS SONT DISPONIBLES AUX ÉDITIONS MATÉRIOLOGIQUES]. Ce troisième numéro de la revue Mεtascience poursuit la caractérisation de cette nouvelle branche du savoir qu’est la métascience. Si elle est nouvelle ce n’est pas en un sens radical puisque Mario Bunge l’a pratiquée de façon exemplaire, puisque les positivistes logiques furent accusés de ne pratiquer qu’une simple métascience, puisque les scientifiques l’ont toujours pratiquée (...)
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  28. 2025-02-13
    Défense de la linguistique en tant que science empirique à la lumière de la conception scientifique de la biologie chez Mario Bunge.Dorota Zielińska - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:209-259. Translated by François Maurice.
    Bien que peu de linguistes adoptent actuellement le paradigme empirique, il y a une demande croissante pour le développement d’outils d’étude du langage similaires à ceux des sciences exactes. Cette tendance peut être observée même dans les principales revues linguistiques, telles que le Journal of Pragmatics, comme l’illustre Xiang (2017). Aujourd’hui, cependant, les linguistes qui adaptent les méthodologies des sciences plus avancées sont isolés de la communauté linguistique. En effet, la majorité des linguistes des départements de philologie et de philosophie (...)
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  29. 2025-02-13
    De l’heuristique philosophique.Andrés Pereyra Rabanal - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:261-274. Translated by François Maurice.
    La philosophie peut être considérée comme une recherche conceptuelle soumise aux normes habituelles de rationalité. Cependant, il ne semble pas y avoir un en-semble de critères qui fait consensus pour évaluer et comparer les théories philosophiques. D’un point de vue heuristique et érotétique, la philosophie est ici con-sidérée comme un ensemble de réflexions de second ordre à propos des présupposés de théories plus spécifiques. Ces présupposés sont évalués en fonction de leur caractère informatif, de leur adéquation, de leur pertinence, de (...)
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  30. 2025-02-13
    Witty social commentary and valuable life lessons. [REVIEW]Amazon Book Readers - 2025 - Amazon Book Review Series of “Wild Wise Weird”.
    Wild Wise Weird: The Kingfisher Story Collection by Quan-Hoang Vuong is an enchanting blend of humor, wisdom, and cultural insight. Drawing inspiration from Vietnamese folklore, these 45 short stories follow the adventures of the Kingfisher, offering witty social commentary and valuable life lessons. With a tone reminiscent of Aesop’s Fables, the collection balances lighthearted storytelling with deeper reflections on leadership, community, and human nature. The charming illustrations and unique narrative style add to the book’s appeal, making it a delightful read (...)
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  31. 2025-02-13
    L’ontologie orientée objet et le matérialisme.Martìn Orensanz - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:275-295. Translated by François Maurice.
    Selon l’ontologie orientée objet [object-oriented ontology], la matière n’existe pas. Ici, je remettrai en question cette idée, en avançant quelques arguments selon lesquels la matière peut être conceptualisée à la fois comme un objet sensuel et comme un objet réel. Je soutiendrai également que la matière n’est pas fictive et que le mot « matière » peut être compris comme un terme grammaticalement singulier mais référentiellement pluriel. Cela étant, la matière elle-même est une pluralité de choses, dont chacune possède un (...)
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    Différence entre le quantificateur existentiel et le prédicat d’existence selon Mario Bunge.Martìn Orensanz - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:49-63. Translated by François Maurice.
    La plupart des philosophes analytiques croient que le quantificateur existentiel, ∃, a une portée ontologique. Mario Bunge a été l’un des premiers penseurs à contester ce point de vue. Il fait une distinction entre le quantificateur ∃ et un prédicat d’existence de premier ordre. De plus, il reconnaît deux types d’existence : réelle et conceptuelle. L’une des raisons d’accepter la position de Bunge est qu’elle peut rendre justice aux énoncés portant sur des entités fictives, ce que les positions rivales ne (...)
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  33. 2025-02-13
    Apprezzare altre menti.Luca Marchetti - forthcoming - Scenari.
    Questo articolo si confronta con la seguente domanda: possono le menti degli altri animali essere oggetti legittimi di apprezzamento estetico? Nel rispondere, sostengo (a) che la mente di altre specie animali è qualcosa che possiamo effettivamente apprezzare; (b) che oggetto dell’apprezzamento in questi casi è duplice: da un lato, apprezziamo l’idoneità alla funzione (fitness for function), le peculiarità, le differenze e le sottigliezze del funzionamento delle altre menti e, dall’altro, apprezziamo l’attività immaginativa attraverso la quale cerchiamo di metterci nella prospettiva (...)
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  34. 2025-02-13
    Vers un programme métascientifique : premier dialogue.François Maurice & Martín Orensanz - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:65-99. Translated by François Maurice.
    Dans le présent article, Maurice et Orensanz dialogueront sur quelques thèmes clés de l’œuvre de Bunge. L’objectif de ce dialogue est de faire avancer le programme métascientifique. Les principaux points abordés peuvent être présentés sous la forme d’une série de questions : est-il possible de prouver que le monde extérieur existe ? Qu’est-ce que la matière ? La relation partie à tout est-elle transi-tive ? Quelle est la différence entre les systèmes et les assortiments ? Les objets fictifs ont-ils une (...)
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  35. 2025-02-13
    Seeing in Mirrors, Without Seeing-in.Luca Marchetti - forthcoming - Philosophia.
    Alberto Voltolini (2021) has recently claimed that mirrors are bona fide pictures, for they are grasped via what he identifies as the defining characteristic of a picture: a certain seeing-in experience. Voltolini refines the somewhat elusive concept of seeing-in, originally described by Wollheim, and then demonstrates its applicability to mirror experience. However, in this paper, I contend that Voltolini's improved version of seeing-in does not aptly describe the experience of viewing mirrors. In fact, according to the first aspect of Voltolini’s (...)
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  36. 2025-02-13
    Seeing in VR, without Seeing-in.Luca Marchetti - forthcoming - Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics.
    In The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality (2022), Grant Tavinor claims that VR is a technologically fancy kind of picturing and, more specifically, that VR headsets elicit proper seeing-in experiences. According to Tavinor, seeing a virtual environment through a stereoscopic headset elicits the same twofold experience as ordinary pictures: users simultaneously perceive the three-dimensional depicted scene – the virtual environment – and the bidimensional surface responsible for displaying such a scene. In this critical note, I argue that this is a wrong (...)
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  37. 2025-02-13
    Qu’est-ce que l’épistémologie métascientifique ?François Maurice - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:15-47.
    L’épistémologie métascientifique se distingue des épistémologies philosophiques par ses objectifs, ses objets et ses méthodes. Par un examen de l’épistémologie de Mario Bunge, nous montrerons d’abord que le principal objectif de l’épistémologie métascientifique est l’élaboration d’une représentation unifiée des transformations épistémiques de la connaissance scientifique par l’étude des opérations épistémiques nécessaires à son acquisition, sa création et sa valida-tion, puis, en second lieu, que ses objets d’étude sont des construits scienti-fiques, et finalement que ses méthodes ne diffèrent pas de celles (...)
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    Que reste-t-il de la philosophie ?François Maurice - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:311-324.
    Nous poursuivons notre examen de l’idée selon laquelle il existerait une sous-discipline en philosophie des sciences, la philosophie dans les sciences, dont les chercheurs utiliseraient des outils philosophiques pour proposer des solutions à des problèmes scientifiques. Nous soutenons plutôt l’idée que ces outils sont des outils épistémiques, cognitifs ou intellectuels standards, à l’œuvre dans toute activité rationnelle et que, par conséquent, ces chercheurs se consacrent à la re-cherche scientifique ou métascientifique.
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  39. 2025-02-13
    Présentation. L’épistémologie métascientifique.François Maurice - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:5-14.
    [TEXTE COMPLET] Cette présentation du troisième numéro de la revue Mεtascience offre un aperçu des articles consacrés à l'épistémologie métascientifique, en s'appuyant sur la pensée de Mario Bunge. L'épistémologie métascientifique est présentée comme une discipline distincte de la philosophie des sciences, se concentrant sur l'étude des construits scientifiques et des opérations épistémiques. La présentation souligne la différence entre les processus cognitifs (étudiés par les neurosciences) et les opérations épistémiques (objets de l'épistémologie métascientifique). Ce numéro de Mεtascience vise à explorer et (...)
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  40. 2025-02-13
    Presentation and the Ways of Knowing.Kurt Sylvan - forthcoming - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.
    Ordinary thought recognizes many ways of knowing. Not all are epistemologically fundamental. Nevertheless, it is standard to think there is more than one fundamental way—call this view access pluralism. Access monism opposes access pluralism. This paper defends a version of access monism I call presentationalist monism (§1), on which the sole fundamental way of knowing is presentation. I defend presentationalist monism in three stages. Firstly (§2), I suggest that it is compelling about four central ways of knowing—viz., perceiving, episodically remembering, (...)
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  41. 2025-02-13
    Moral Dilemmas and Slow Codes.Parker Crutchfield - forthcoming - Bioethics.
    Slow codes—insincere attempts at resuscitation—are widely regarded in medicine and medical ethics as morally impermissible. My goal here is to enrich this special issue on the slow code with an argument for the permissibility of slow codes that is rooted in moral psychology. Specifically, if we take seriously the results from moral psychology, the slow code is not only permissible, it is often the best option. The context of the decision about whether to perform a slow code is analogous to (...)
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  42. 2025-02-13
    Three Roads from Sensory Awareness to Dualism.Brian Cutter - forthcoming - Philosophia.
    In this commentary on Neil Mehta's excellent book, A Pluralist Theory of Perception, I argue that Mehta's commitments lead to dualism. To this end, I give three arguments against physicalism that centrally rely on claims Mehta accepts. Since the relevant claims are highly plausible, the three arguments give everyone, not just Mehta, reason to reject physicalism.
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  43. 2025-02-13
    L’épistémologie de Mario Bunge et l’enseignement des modèles et de la modélisation en science : le cas des modèles de l’atome.Juliana Machado - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:101-126. Translated by François Maurice.
    Les conceptions que les étudiants en sciences ont de la nature des modèles scientifiques conduisent à une image inexacte de ceux-ci, notamment lorsque les modèles sont vus comme de simples copies de la réalité. Outre le fait qu’elle en-tretient une conception fausse de la nature de la science, cette façon de se figurer les modèles peut constituer un obstacle pédagogique à l’apprentissage. Objec-tifs : Nous évaluons l’épistémologie de Mario Bunge afin de déterminer si elle peut contribuer à résoudre les problèmes (...)
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  44. 2025-02-13
    Strengthening Partnerships entre las Familias, las Escuelas, y la Universidad for Dual Language Bilingual, Bicultural, Biliterate Education (DLB3E).J. Joy Esquierdo & Alexander V. Stehn - 2025 - Journal of Latinos and Education 24.
    This paper explores how an institution of higher education in partnership with a local parent-led organization can support authentic and organic Latinx family engagement and advocacy for dual language bilingual, bicultural, biliterate education (DLB3E). We reflect upon how engaging with Spanish-speaking parents helped us reimagine, reinvigorate, and transform local schools and universities by means of new understandings and practices of linguistic and cultural wealth, community assets, and family empowerment. We argue that this form of collaboration can lead to innovative and (...)
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  45. 2025-02-13
    Système, modélisation conceptuelle et complexité.Roman Lukyanenko, Veda C. Storey & Oscar Pastor - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:127-208. Translated by François Maurice.
    L’informatisation de la société se poursuit à un rythme effréné. Cependant, pour développer les technologies modernes de l’information, la complexité croissante du monde réel doit être modélisée, ce qui nécessite de revoir la façon de réaliser une modélisation conceptuelle. Cette étude propose que la notion souvent négli-gée de « système » doive être un construit distinct et fondamental pour la modéli-sation conceptuelle, et argumente en faveur de son intégration, de même que l’intégration de concepts connexes, tels que l’émergence, dans les (...)
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  46. 2025-02-13
    Matière et société. Réponse à Orensanz.Graham Harman - 2025 - Mεtascience: Discours Général Scientifique 3:297-309. Translated by François Maurice.
    Cet article est une réponse à l’argument de Martin Orensanz selon lequel l’ontologie orientée objet devrait accepter l’existence de la matière en tant qu’objet à la fois sensuel et réel. Que la matière puisse exister en tant qu’objet sensuel, nous l’admettons d’emblée puisque « objet sensuel » est un terme si large que rien ne peut être exclu de cette dénomination. Ce n’est pourtant pas le cas, selon moi, des objets réels, qui doivent exister indépendamment de toute autre entité sus-ceptible (...)
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  47. 2025-02-13
    Functionalism, integrity, and digital consciousness.Derek Shiller - 2024 - Synthese 203 (2):1-20.
    The prospect of consciousness in artificial systems is closely tied to the viability of functionalism about consciousness. Even if consciousness arises from the abstract functional relationships between the parts of a system, it does not follow that any digital system that implements the right functional organization would be conscious. Functionalism requires constraints on what it takes to properly implement an organization. Existing proposals for constraints on implementation relate to the integrity of the parts and states of the realizers of roles (...)
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  48. 2025-02-13
    FROM ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY TOWARDS A COMPREHENSIVE PHILOSOPHICAL ATTITUDE OF A PLURALIST LOGICAL KIND.Antonino Drago - manuscript
    My hypothesis is that the Analytical philosophy and continental philosophy are the two divergent epigones of the failure of Hegel philosophy in suggesting a new kind of logic.
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  49. 2025-02-13
    What do we talk about when we talk about metaphysical modality? A case study in conceptual systematicity.Barbara Vetter - forthcoming - In Aaron Segal & Nick Stang (eds.), Systematic Metaphysics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford University Press.
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  50. 2025-02-13
    Freedom and the Shaping of National Culture in Hispanic American Representations of the Renaissance Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, José Ingenieros and Alejandro Korn.Silvia Manzo - 2025 - In Mario Meliadò & Cecilia Muratori (eds.), Dissident renaissance: rewriting the history of early modern philosophy as political practice. Boston, Massachusetts: Brill. pp. 135-166.
    This chapter explores the representations of the Renaissance developed by two prominent intellectuals in Argentine philosophy during the first three decades of the twentieth century: José Ingenieros and Alejandro Korn. Their work is contrasted with that of a nineteenth- century Spanish source that served as the basis for their own performances, Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo. It will highlight how these authors articulated the ideas and ideals of the Renaissance with the construction of a national thought and culture. For the Argentines it (...)
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  51. 2025-02-13
    Agency in reproduction.Laura Nuño de la Rosa - 2023 - Evolution & Development 6 (340):418-429.
    While niche construction theory and developmental approaches to evolution have brought to the front the active role of organisms as ecological and developmental agents, respectively, the role of agents in reproduction has been widely neglected by organismal perspectives of evolution. This paper addresses this problem by proposing an agential view of reproduction and shows that such a perspective has implications for the explanation of the origin of modes of reproduction, the evolvability of reproductive modes, and the coevolution between reproduction and (...)
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  52. 2025-02-13
    [Review of] Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology. By Gregory Radick. [REVIEW]Charles H. Pence - 2025 - Quarterly Review of Biology 100 (1):30-31.
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  53. 2025-02-13
    T. Button and S. Walsh. Philosophy and Model Theory. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018, xvi + 517 pp. [REVIEW]Andrew Arana - 2020 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 26 (3-4):287-292.
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  54. 2025-02-13
    Understanding value: the devil’s in the details.A. I. S. D. L. Team - 2025 - Sm3D Portal.
    In our attempt to explore possible solutions for the world’s grave environmental problems, our book titled Better economics for the Earth proposes a new approach to understanding and redefining value. A good explanation is provided in Tran (2025), which informs us that the current approach to understanding value has been criticized for trying to “put a price tag on nature” without fundamentally challenging the underlying economic paradigm. To further support the process of change, concerning our understanding value, we now introduce (...)
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  55. 2025-02-13
    "Walking the Earth Path: Explooring the Spiritual Common Core of Nature Religions".Wayne Mellinger - 2025 - Naturalistic Paganism.
    The Earth Path, as I define it, is a way of life that integrates spiritual practice with ecological ethics. It is the living embodiment of the spiritual common core found in Nature Religions, guiding individuals to align their beliefs and practices with the rhythms and cycles of the Earth. To walk the Earth Path is to recognize the sacredness of nature and to act in ways that honor, protect, and sustain the natural world. The Earth Path is thus central to (...)
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  56. 2025-02-13
    Notes on a future quantum event-ontology.Sebastian Horvat - manuscript
    This essay is a two-step reflection on the question 'Which events (can be said to) occur in quantum phenomena?' The first step regiments the ontological category of statistical phenomena and studies the adequacy of probabilistic event models as descriptions thereof. Guided by the conviction that quantum phenomena are to be circumscribed within this same ontological category, the second step highlights the peculiarities of probabilistic event models of some non-relativistic quantum phenomena, and thereby of what appear to be some plausible answers (...)
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  57. 2025-02-13
    Open letter to Iain McGilchrist / I. On Iain McGilchrist’s Implicit Physiological Confirmation of Kantian Stereoperspectival Epistemology.Marcel Chelba - 2024 - Tübingen: Kantinomus Verlag e.U..
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  58. 2025-02-13
    Big Religion and 'Prophets for Profit': Whiteness in South African Megachurches, Prosperity Theology, and Economic Inequality.Tristan Kapp - manuscript
    The post-pandemic economy in South Africa has exacerbated significant economic challenges, due to increasing unemployment, political corruption, inflation, and rising poverty, which have worsened the struggles of many (see Francis & Webster 2019:789–791; Arndt et al. 2020:16–22; van Papendorp, Packirisamy & Masike 2024:1-4). However, amid this turmoil, Christian megachurches (especially those promoting prosperity theology), have continued to flourish. Prominent South African pastors continue to espouse that financial success is a sign of divine favour, encouraging congregants to tithe faithfully, in exchange (...)
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  59. 2025-02-13
    Undetermined: Free will in real time and through time.Kevin J. Mitchell - manuscript
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  60. 2025-02-13
    Secret self-knowledge: considering sex magick as post-theistic spirituality in Eastern, Western, and African Esotericism.T. Kapp - 2024 - Dissertation, University of Pretoria
    Since Antoine Faivre's emergence and establishment of "Western esotericism" in the late twentieth century, the discourse of globalising esotericism (beyond the West) has been fraught with controversy. As there are several polemical conversations about how such an effort should manifest itself in esoteric scholarship. This comparative, descriptive, and religionist approach to esotericism explores the intricate relationship between sexuality and spirituality by understanding the intersections of these aspects as manifested in Western, Eastern, and African esoteric currents, from Aleister Crowley's magia sexualis (...)
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  61. 2025-02-13
    The Holistic Governance Model (HGM): A Blueprint for the Future.Angelito Malicse - manuscript
    The Holistic Governance Model (HGM): A Blueprint for the Future -/- Introduction -/- Governments today face increasing challenges, from economic instability and climate change to corruption and social inequality. No single government system has fully solved these issues, but by integrating the best aspects of existing models, we can create an optimal governance system. -/- The Holistic Governance Model (HGM) is a hybrid system that combines elements from Social Democracy, Technocracy, Semi-Direct Democracy, China’s Whole-Process People’s Democracy, and the Modified Westminster (...)
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  62. 2025-02-13
    Review of Treatise on Intuitionistic Type Theory by Johan Georg Granström.Eric Schmid - manuscript
    Johan Georg Granström’s Treatise on Intuitionistic Type Theory represents a landmark contribution to our understanding of the philosophical foundations of Per Martin-Löf’s intuitionistic type theory (ITT). The work is particularly noteworthy for its careful exposition of how ITT emerges as a sophisticated codification of Brouwerian intuitionism while simultaneously advancing a distinctly Kantian program in the philosophy of mathematics. This philosophical grounding, drawing heavily on both Kantian and Husserlian phenomenology, offers valuable insights into the nature of mathematical knowledge and computation. The (...)
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  63. 2025-02-13
    Justified True Crisis.Alexander Schneider - manuscript
    Gettier cases reveal the paradoxes within the universally applied, but therefore misunderstood, framework of Plato’s “justified true belief” (JTB). By identifying and addressing five challenges this analysis highlights the limitations of JTB in dynamic contexts. The resulting instabilities and contradictions necessitate a shift toward a dualistic model of knowledge, distinguishing between static knowledge (SK), which is timeless and unchanging, and dynamic knowledge (DK), which can adapt and evolve with changing circumstances. In this framework, Gettier cases will be explained as conceptual (...)
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  64. 2025-02-13
    The Brachistochrone Theory of Consciousness & Reality Navigation.Matthew Stewart - manuscript
    This paper proposes a novel framework for understanding consciousness as a dynamic navigator of parallel realities, guided by principles of least-action optimization akin to the brachistochrone curve in physics. Rather than moving linearly through time, consciousness may instead be selecting optimal trajectories across a pre-existing structure of potential realities, ensuring continuity and coherence in perceived experience. By drawing parallels to quantum wavefunction collapse, black hole thermodynamics, and Hawking radiation, we explore how dreams may function as a subconscious dissipation mechanism, offloading (...)
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  65. 2025-02-13
    From Beak to Tail: Machine Learning Models for Bird Identification.R. Senthilkumar - 2023 - Journal of Science Technology and Research (JSTAR) 4 (1):1-14.
    Bird species identification plays a vital role in biodiversity conservation and ecological studies, offering insights into habitat health and species distribution. Traditional methods for identifying bird species are time-intensive and prone to human error, necessitating automated solutions. This project, Bird Species Identification Using Deep Learning, proposes an advanced system leveraging the power of deep learning to accurately identify bird species from images. The system utilizes a convolutional neural network (CNN), renowned for its proficiency in image classification tasks. A dataset comprising (...)
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  66. 2025-02-13
    Neural Networks in the Wild: Advancing Bird Species Recognition with Deep Learning.M. Elavarasan - 2023 - Journal of Science Technology and Research (JSTAR) 4 (1):1-10.
    The system utilizes a convolutional neural network (CNN), renowned for its proficiency in image classification tasks. A dataset comprising diverse bird species images is preprocessed and augmented to enhance model robustness and generalization. The model architecture is designed to extract intricate features, enabling accurate identification even in challenging scenarios such as varying lighting conditions, occlusions, or similar species appearances. The model's performance is evaluated using metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, ensuring comprehensive validation. Results indicate significant accuracy improvements (...)
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  67. 2025-02-13
    From Beak to Tail: Machine Learning Models for Bird Identification.P. Selvaprasanth - 2023 - Journal of Science Technology and Research (JSTAR) 4 (1):1-10.
    The model architecture is designed to extract intricate features, enabling accurate identification even in challenging scenarios such as varying lighting conditions, occlusions, or similar species appearances. The model's performance is evaluated using metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, ensuring comprehensive validation. Results indicate significant accuracy improvements over traditional machine learning approaches, demonstrating the potential of deep learning in species identification. This project holds promise for applications in wildlife monitoring, ecological research, and educational tools, promoting awareness and conservation efforts. (...)
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  68. 2025-02-13
    Creatures and Creators: God, Humanity, and Artificial General Intelligence.Joshua Brecka - forthcoming - Religious Studies.
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  69. 2025-02-13
    Construct Validity in Automated Counterterrorism Analysis.Adrian K. Yee - 2025 - Philosophy of Science 92 (1):1-18.
    Governments and social scientists are increasingly developing machine learning methods to automate the process of identifying terrorists in real time and predict future attacks. However, current operationalizations of “terrorist”’ in artificial intelligence are difficult to justify given three issues that remain neglected: insufficient construct legitimacy, insufficient criterion validity, and insufficient construct validity. I conclude that machine learning methods should be at most used for the identification of singular individuals deemed terrorists and not for identifying possible terrorists from some more general (...)
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  70. 2025-02-13
    Feathered Intelligence: Leveraging Machine Learning for Bird Identification.A. Manoj Prabharan - 2023 - Journal of Science Technology and Research (JSTAR) 4 (1):1-10.
    The model's performance is evaluated using metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, ensuring comprehensive validation. Results indicate significant accuracy improvements over traditional machine learning approaches, demonstrating the potential of deep learning in species identification. This project holds promise for applications in wildlife monitoring, ecological research, and educational tools, promoting awareness and conservation efforts. Future work may include integrating the system into mobile applications or deploying it for real-time bird species identification in field conditions.
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  71. 2025-02-13
    Avian Vision: Deep Learning for Accurate Bird Species Identification.M. Devendran - 2023 - Journal of Science Technology and Research (JSTAR) 4 (1):1-10.
    Bird species identification plays a vital role in biodiversity conservation and ecological studies, offering insights into habitat health and species distribution. Traditional methods for identifying bird species are time-intensive and prone to human error, necessitating automated solutions. This project, Bird Species Identification Using Deep Learning, proposes an advanced system leveraging the power of deep learning to accurately identify bird species from images. The system utilizes a convolutional neural network (CNN), renowned for its proficiency in image classification tasks. A dataset comprising (...)
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  72. 2025-02-13
    The Relational Aspect of Agent-Regret.Larisa Svirsky - 2025 - American Journal of Bioethics 25 (2):44-46.
    The idea that agent-regret is an important phenomenon in healthcare seems clear. Enck and Condley (2025) do an excellent job giving examples where clinician agent-regret seems understandable. Nonetheless, they focus almost exclusively on the importance of preserving clinician agency in these cases which, while likewise important, fails to fully capture their significance. Cases such as Dr. C’s and Nurse M’s are ones where there are clearly victims even if there are no wrongdoers; this is likely part of why Dr. C (...)
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  73. 2025-02-13
    A Balanced Economic Model: The Feedback Loop Between Public and Private Sectors with MMT as a Stabilizing Mechanism.Angelito Malicse - manuscript
    A Balanced Economic Model: The Feedback Loop Between Public and Private Sectors with MMT as a Stabilizing Mechanism -/- Introduction -/- Modern capitalism thrives on competition, profit motives, and consumer demand. However, the system is flawed because it allows extreme wealth inequality, market instability, and frequent economic crashes. Advertising, as an essential part of capitalism, manipulates consumer behavior to sustain profits. While this fuels economic growth, it also distorts the real needs of society. -/- A better alternative Is a hybrid (...)
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  74. 2025-02-13
    Machine Learning for Characterization and Analysis of Microstructure and Spectral Data of Materials.Venkataramaiah Gude - 2023 - International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering 12 (21):820 - 826.
    In the contemporary world, there is lot of research going on in creating novel nano materials that are essential for many industries including electronic chips and storage devices in cloud to mention few. At the same time, there is emergence of usage of machine learning (ML) for solving problems in different industries such as manufacturing, physics and chemical engineering. ML has potential to solve many real world problems with its ability to learn in either supervised or unsupervised means. It is (...)
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  75. 2025-02-13
    Capturing Cognitive Flexibility: Responses to Cavallarin and Van Eyghen, Oviedo, and Szocik.Neil Van Leeuwen - forthcoming - Zygon.
    This is a response piece to the commentaries by Alberto Cavallarin and Hans Van Eyghen, Lluis Oviedo, and Konrad Szocik on my book _Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity_.
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  76. 2025-02-12
    Avant-gardes.Gavin Keeney - 2025 - Zenodo.
    Preliminary research on the Edition of One (EO1) project, "W(h)ither the Avant-garde?" Includes a report on the art-world ca.2006-2010.
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  77. 2025-02-12
    "Responsibility" Plus "Gap" Equals "Problem".Marc Champagne - 2025 - In Johanna Seibt, Peter Fazekas & Oliver Santiago Quick (eds.), Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods. Amsterdam: IOS Press. pp. 244–252.
    Peter Königs recently argued that, while autonomous robots generate responsibility gaps, such gaps need not be considered problematic. I argue that Königs’ compromise dissolves under analysis since, on a proper understanding of what “responsibility” is and what “gap” (metaphorically) means, their joint endorsement must repel an attitude of indifference. So, just as “calamities that happen but don’t bother anyone” makes no sense, the idea of “responsibility gaps that exist but leave citizens and ethicists unmoved” makes no sense.
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  78. 2025-02-12
    Off-Switching Not Guaranteed.Sven Neth - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies.
    Hadfield-Menell et al. (2017) propose the Off-Switch Game, a model of Human-AI cooperation in which AI agents always defer to humans because they are uncertain about our preferences. I explain two reasons why AI agents might not defer. First, AI agents might not value learning. Second, even if AI agents value learning, they might not be certain to learn our actual preferences.
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  79. 2025-02-12
    Mathematical Logic for STEM.Paul Mayer - manuscript
    This book serves as an introduction to mathematical logic for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) students, written for undergraduates (in particular, 1st and 2nd year undergraduates). A focus on this book is on logical *thinking*, not simply rote memorization, with a focus on examples and analogies relevant to students aimed at becoming technical leaders and problem solvers.
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  80. 2025-02-12
    Constitutive Contractual of Caste Society (Excursus --- Absurd Failure of Free Market in Cryptocurrency).Morteza Shahram - manuscript
    ---- I ---- Once upon a time, there was a most elegant lady who had a most majestic dog on leash standing but distracted by something other than the dog. The dog struggled impossibly but forcefully to loose free and chase a most ordinary rabbit. ------ II ------ Another time the elegant lady dines at a fancy restaurant. Then she was walking on the sidewalk. She encountered an ordinary homeless in the sate of minimal energy giving all in to gravity. (...)
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  81. 2025-02-12
    Eine kleine Einführung in Wissenschaftstheorie und Methodologie.Klaus Niedermair - 2010 - Innsbruck: Studia Universitätsverlag Innsbruck.
    Dieses Buch will ein Problembewusstsein für Fragen der Wissenschaftstheorie und Methodologie vermitteln. Es wird ein Überblick geboten über die wichtigsten Positionen der Wissenschaftstheorie. In Praxisbeispielen wird gezeigt, wie diese Positionen jeweils unterschiedliche methodische Herangehensweisen nahe legen und mithin auch für das Forschungsresultat entscheidend sind. Denn über ein und denselben Forschungsgegenstand kann es - abhängig von wissenschaftstheoretischen und methodologischen Voraussetzungen - unterschiedliche Theorien geben. Das Ziel des Buches ist, dass Studierende der Sozial- und Erziehungswissenschaft lernen, Theorien auch im Hinblick auf wissenschaftstheoretische (...)
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  82. 2025-02-12
    The Obligation and Value of Justice in Hume.Ian Cruise - forthcoming - Hume Studies.
    This paper develops an interpretation of Hume’s accounts of the obligation and value of justice. According to my interpretation, Hume takes the obligation of justice to depend (in part) on the conventions that define the rules of justice realizing a distinctive form of value, which I call functional value. Properly understanding Hume’s accounts, I argue, requires revisionary understandings of his accounts of both the set of things susceptible to fundamental moral evaluation and his view of the nature of utility.
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  83. 2025-02-12
    EFICÁCIA ESCOLAR E VULNERABILIDADE SOCIAL: MAPEANDO ESCOLAS NO ABC PAULISTA.Alessandra Cristina Matheus de Paiva Pereira - 2023 - Dissertation, Universidade Municipal de São Caetano Do Sul
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  84. 2025-02-12
    Black Nausea: Existential Awareness of Antiblack Racism and a Phenomenology of Caution.Corey Reed - 2025 - Critical Philosophy of Race 13 (1):139-156.
    When Black agents engage spaces and phenomena that suggest a racialized, potential danger, Black agents shift in their existential understanding of themselves and their phenomenological engagement with the world. This article describes that existential and phenomenological change, and examines the issue of hypothetical anti-Black racism. Utilizing Sartrean and Fanonian conceptions of existential phenomenology, this article explicates three terms: Black nausea, Black vertigo, and a phenomenology of caution. These terms are used to describe the tension that Black agents experience when they (...)
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  85. 2025-02-12
    Two Distinctions about World-Relative Truth.Christopher James Masterman - forthcoming - Analysis.
    The distinction between truth in, and truth at, a possible world plays a significant role in many debates in modal metaphysics. In this note, I argue that there are two radically different ways of making the distinction precise. I argue that the differences matter, showing how they differently constrain the modal metaphysics of properties and propositions.
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  86. 2025-02-12
    Should we stop talking about “democracy”? Conceptual abandonment and the perils of political discourse.Steffen Koch - 2025 - Asian Journal of Philosophy 4 (28):1-16.
    In his recent book, The Concept of Democracy: An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment (OUP, 2023) Herman Cappelen argues that we should abandon the concept of democracy, and hence stop using the words “democracy” and “democratic.” In the course of developing his arguments for this surprising claim, Cappelen also offers a more general theory of what kind of reasons count in favor of abandoning a concept. In this paper, which is part of a book symposium on Cappelen’s book, I (...)
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  87. 2025-02-12
    Primo Levi: testimonio, barbarie (desmenuzando Auschwitz), conciencia moral y memoria de las víctimas.Antonia Tejeda Barros - 2024 - Cadernos de LíNgua e Literatura Hebraica 26:4–42.
    RESUMEN: Primo Levi fue un químico y escritor italiano judío que sobrevivió a Auschwitz III (Monowitz) y dejó su testimonio en Se questo è un uomo (1947), La tregua (1963), Il sistema periodico (1975), I sommersi e i salvati y otros escritos y entrevistas. La voz de Levi es la voz de la conciencia moral, el testimonio de la barbarie y la memoria de las víctimas (una voz que habla de deportación, injusticia, hundimiento y destrucción). En el presente artículo trazo (...)
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  88. 2025-02-12
    Profiles of Animal Empathy: A Multidimensional Account.Albert Newen - manuscript
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  89. 2025-02-12
    Wanting to know whether.Ittay Nissan-Rozen - forthcoming - Analysis.
    It is argued that that the desire attributed to an agent, X, in sentences of the form ‘X wants to know whether P’, is not X’s overall desire for ‘X knows that P or X knows that “not P”’, but rather X’s expected conditional desire for knowing the truth about P, given the truth. An implication of this account for distributive justice is discussed.
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  90. 2025-02-12
    Appendix (in) Pleasure. New Research on Fragment B67 of Heraclitus of Ephesus.Wojciech Wrotkowski - 2023 - In Pleasure. New Research on Fragment B67 of Heraclitus of Ephesus. Warsaw: IFiS PAN Publishers. pp. 177-198.
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  91. 2025-02-12
    Friendships Need to Go Wrong in Order to Go Right.Laura Specker Sullivan & Fay Niker - forthcoming - Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
    Companion friendship is a paradigm example of a trusting relationship and is a central good in human life. These friendships are also complex; navigating this complexity carries risk. Philosophical work has largely overlooked questions about how friends might navigate this morally risky space in ways that protect and develop their relationship over time. More specifically, although it is generally accepted that friendship involves acting to promote the well-being of one’s friend, ethical analysis of such interpersonal action has not addressed questions (...)
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  92. 2025-02-12
    The Illusion of Absolute Answers.Gayatri S. - manuscript
    Humans have an innate desire for answers, believing that every question must have a definitive solution. However, not all answers are absolute—some are shaped by perception, context, and circumstance. This paper explores the tension between absolutism—the belief that objective truths exist independently of interpretation—and relativism, which argues that truth is shaped by perspective. While mathematical and scientific principles seem to offer fixed truths, human experiences, ethics, and philosophical dilemmas resist universal solutions. This paper posits a middle-ground theory, asserting that while (...)
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  93. 2025-02-12
    Meaningful work, nonperfectionism, and reciprocity.Caleb Althorpe - 2022 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
    Any liberal argument for incorporating meaningful work within a theory of justice inherits a burden of proof to show why it does not fall to the objection that privileging the work process valorizes particular ideas about the good and thereby unfairly privileges some persons over others. Existing liberal defences of meaningful work, which rely on the formative effects of work in contemporary economies, have a limited scope of appeal and do not provide a convincing reply to the objection. The paper (...)
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  94. 2025-02-12
    (3 other versions)Standard humanism & worldwide standard human society: the bright & brilliant world of 3rd millennium.Dāryūsh Qāsimiyān Dastjirdī - 2020 - [United States]: Lulu Press.
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  95. 2025-02-12
    The Concept of God in Wittgenstein's Philosophy.Dr Mehran Zare Rameshti - manuscript
    This paper explores Ludwig Wittgenstein’s contributions to the philosophy of religion, particularly his views on the nature of religious language and belief. Wittgenstein’s rejection of metaphysical proofs for the existence of God and his emphasis on religious language as part of a form of life offer a radical departure from traditional theological and epistemological approaches. Instead of treating religious statements as empirical claims, Wittgenstein argues that their meaning is embedded in their use within religious practices and communal traditions. The study (...)
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  96. 2025-02-12
    Estética e Desporto.João Tiago Lima - 2016 - Porto: Afrontamento.
    Although sport has always played an important role in my life, whether as a modest tennis player or as a passionate fan, especially of football and rugby, the truth is that I only made it a subject of study and more systematic reflection, when I started teaching at the University of Évora various subjects from the epistemological area of ​​philosophy to Physical Education and Sport courses. It soon became clear to me that the area of ​​sports philosophy is a huge (...)
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  97. 2025-02-12
    Suspension as a mood.Benoit Guilielmo & Artūrs Logins - forthcoming - Philosophical Psychology.
    Suspension of judgment is a ubiquitous phenomenon in our lives. It is also relevant for several debates in contemporary epistemology (e.g., evidentialism/pragmatism; peer-disagreement/higher-order evidence; inquiry). The goal of this paper is to arrive at a better understanding of what suspension of judgment is. We first question the popular assumption that we call the Triad view according to which there are three and only three (paradigmatic) doxastic attitudes, namely, belief, disbelief, and suspension of judgment. We elaborate a cumulative argument regarding crucial (...)
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  98. 2025-02-12
    The Many Myths That Surround Jacques Derrida and His Philosophy.Rex Eloquens - 2024 - Blog/Articles.
    Though he is no stranger to philosophy, his character and philosophy in the English-speaking world mostly are, and it is this paper’s objective to show why that possibly is the case, why the biases, stereotypes, and bad faith interpretations of Jacques Derrida run amok, and in the process, perhaps offer a clearer and more faithful interpretation of the man and his work. The work that many either refuse to read and look at, in favor of uncharitable images and, at worst, (...)
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  99. 2025-02-12
    The Erotetic Approach in Ecocriticism.Dancizo Yarness Toro Rivadeneira - 2025 - Sophia. Colección de Filosofía de la Educación 38:201-240.
    Este artículo propone un enfoque erotético para definir el programa de investigación ecocrítico, analizando la interrelación entre los marcos conceptuales de la ecología y la teoría crítica literaria. Se sugiere una estructuracomún basada en agendas de problemas que enriquecen, tanto la práctica científica como la enseñanza. El objetivoprincipal es mostrar cómo la formulación de preguntas contribuye de manera significativa a la creación de agendasde problemas abiertos que guían la investigación, fomentando el desarrollo de nuevas hipótesis y promoviendo la interdisciplinariedad en (...)
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  100. 2025-02-12
    Nachbarn oder Nachkommen? Intra- vs. intergenerationelle Gerechtigkeit.Colin von Negenborn - 2025 - Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 11 (2):93-118.
    Wie sollen individuelle, miteinander konkurrierende Ansprüche gegeneinander abgewogen werden? Die gerechtigkeitstheoretischen Herausforderungen wachsen, wenn künftige Personen mit einbezogen werden. Mit dem Schritt von rein intra- zu intergenerationeller Gerechtigkeit sind die Ansprüche nicht mehr nur im Raum, sondern auch in der Zeit verteilt. Dieser Beitrag widmet sich der Frage, auf welche Weise die so verteilten Ansprüche zusammengeführt werden sollen. Dazu wird zwischen einer synchronen und einer diachronen Gerechtigkeitskonzeption unterschieden. Erstere sieht die zeitliche Dimension als Erweiterung der räumlichen: Zunächst setzt sie jene (...)
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